What will be carved on your tombstone?
It's a game we used to play around Halloween, and even though it is nowhere near that time of year, I thought it would be fun. Basically, if there is a phrase you use often or even too much (and each of you definitely have one), that would be the thing to go on your gravestone.
In the past, such luminous exclamations as "Outstanding" and "right On" would have graced mine, but now it is a more profound quote:
"It is what it is."
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" Told you I was sick."
Oh, I have a funny one.
"I survived"
I'm an atheist
cremation = no tomb = no tombstone
Hey.. that is what my dad wants on his. I guess it must be true.
HEY! Where am I going and why am I in a hand-basket?
Here lies the body of Marsha Meyer.
Could be she's near, but we hope a bit higher.
Or Golly Ding!
Here's an Indian saying, way to long to put ona headstone though.
Don't ask for more time because you didn't live your life. Sing your death chant, and die like a hero going home. Chief Buffalo, Ojibwe.
Or
Hoka Hey (today is a good day to die), Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux.
Actually Tacos, one of my life long friends that walked on a couple of years ago, and is buried at the Veterans Cemetary in Boulder City NV. has on his headstone, ''It is what it is''..
Being cremated here but here goes...
Died Rich in Love
(They may charge by the letter. Kavika's going to use up all the insurance money)
Devoted father and husband
"I was what you are
I am what you will become."
LOL Perrie...It's gonna be hot down there.
o'stephanie, when I found out that I couldn't take it with me, I decided not to go...LOL
Not here
LOL!
Love that, Robert.
Here lies Gordy. About friggin time!
I always loved Crazy Horse's quote.
I'm going for cremation, and scattered at sea, but I hope someone makes a small poster that says.....
"I had it! You got it!"
"Frankly, I'd rather be fishing"
Cute!!!
Isn't that sort of like Steve McQueen's line in The Magnificent Seven? I just don't think he used the word "such"?
Mine will be elegantly simple. A granite hand, with the index (not middle) finger extended. Underneath will be inscribed, "Who died?"
(you know, pull the finger?? Is it too sublime to be understood?)
If I were to have acivilian burial my tomestone would say,...
A Zen Master once said,..."A friend's eye is a good mirror."...so everyone else,.... ssa ym ssik
Hey who turned out the lights?
simply "Meh"
Don't worry folks, I'm an A/C mechanic and I'll have it running in no time.
I once heard that Johnny Carson said that he wanted his to read "I'll Be Right Back". Don't know if he ever got it or not.
Mine: TTGA
1948-2048
TTGA 0 Angry Husband 1
I've changed my mind... I want:
"She tried"
LOL!!!
"pepperoni and cheese"
Couldnt help it... 90s joke.
My husband wants
"died while gallantly saving the passengers of a sinking ship while riding a horse and dressed like a pirate"
I'd be good with
"soylent green (TM): now with more old lady"
LOL!
Y'all are just so CLEVER!
This is a lot like reading "The Spoon River Anthology"...
BTW, Spoon River Anthology is online, free, if you ever want to read it. It's VERY good!
Spoon River Anthology
Vis Major, I like that.
If I am buried I want:
Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Daughter
Or I've gone home.
too funny
Wouldn't you want to add: "Great Grandmother, Great-Great Grandmother"?
Cool.
"She loved her Heiny's!!"
Well friends and loves thanks for stopping by, but for the restat mybequest I'm burried face down.
"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
I like that one.
Also, glad to see you around here Summer.
Okay, so I think we've tackled everybody's favorites and what they would want others to read. Now, let's change it up and post what others would carve on your tombstone. What are recognizable quotes you overuse, or things people know you for?
What others might carve on my tombstone? How about "6 feet under and heading in the right direction"
Lol. One might call that "trying to dig a hole to China", except, well, you know....
Compared to what I was thinking that would be complimentary. LOL
My hubby and I are going to be cremated and our ashes buried together, but since one of us will be depending on my son to take care of the details, we will probably end up with the dust bunnies under his bed!
"At the end of the day...."
Ya know, that actually seems kinda fitting!
Another one I use way too much is: "Between you, me and the fencepost...." (when discussing something confidential)