What do you want on your headstone?

Sorry about your loss.

For me, I hope someone adds the following to the text:

"Would somebody please get this &%*#!!!! glorified bolder off of me!"

n2s
 
dunno on the headstone...prolly do cremation, meself. My bro is throwing the urn outta porcelain.

Maybe "Hey! You kids get outta my yard":D




Keith
 
from a John Prine song:

Please don't bury me
down in the cold, cold ground


but seriously, I'd like something like this around a triangle:

"Strength, Love, Honor"


I've been thinking of having a tattoo designed around that
 
If I was going to be buried, I sort of like the idea of having my backside sticking above ground so that visitors would have somewhere to park their bicycles.
However, cremation is the preferred option I reckon, so something like "The Final Irony" on the urn might be appropriate 'cos I spent so long putting fires out. Either that or "Gone to Blazes" and let the reader think what they want on that one.

Derek.
 
For all the kind words.

In 1997 Dad went into the hospital for a knee replacement. He had general anesthesia. When he came out, his mind was seriously dammaged. Incredible visual and auditory haluciantions. Something called "Charles Bonnet Syndrome." His body began to deterioriate, but he held on for seven more years.

Anyhow we thought about suing the hospital, but really never followed up on it because we were so distraught about Dad.

We had to place him in an Alzheimier's Home for care. I guess it was fortunate that he was so far gone that he did not have enough intelligence left to know how bad off he was.

It was a very sad and depressing time for me and my sister. Dad's short term memory was gone. He remembered vividly his naval experiences in WWII, but nnot what had ahhppened in the last twenty years.

To see a man who once commanded over a thousand sailors reduced to such a state was a real heartbreaker.

Truthfully I was both sad and glad when he finally passed. I know that he went on to a better place where there is no pain, no suffering, no sickness.

He was 85.

When my time comes I just want to go quickly.
 
Bill?

I am so sorry...more so now that you explained. How cruel for you and yours.

As a marker line, how about:

"It was MY life!"

Be well and safe.


Kis
 
I've often thought of: "Hey! It's not so bad!" or "Finally at rest with my dogs!" or "This place rawks!"
 
I plan on being cremated, and want my ashes scattered. If I am worth remembering, surely there need not be space wasted on Earth for that.

If I had a tombstone, though, maybe I'd want something like:
Here lies John Shirley. He loved life and he earned his long sleep.
 
I think it was a Neil Diamond song "Done Too Soon".
 
He was a strong man who lived life well and deeply enjoyed it, a loving man, but he really only did what he wanted to do.

That's it. I think you have it.

I wanted to put on Dad's headstone, "He did the best he could with what he had. Nobody can do more." But sisters preferred nothing and so it was.
 
one famous quote that makes a lot of sense

free at last
free at last
thank God I am free at last

or maybe more simple

he lived free
 
Sorry for you loss.

Scary, my dad has been putting off getting a replacemnt knee. Never heard of Bonnet's syndrome. That some rare side effect of anesthesia?

However you asked about my tombstone. For the forseeable future I'd like it to say "Vacancy".

I guess at some point that could change.
 
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