What's going on your headstone?

[KnottedYet]

toast me, grind me up, and dump me in North Puget Sound.

I'd rather have one of those memorial benches along some beach walk somewhere.

Maybe with a plaque. Can't think of anything funny enough right now. Gotta have something to do with sitting on your butt and how you gotta sit on it once in a while to really live.

(which is true. If I don't get my spacing-out time, I am Not A Fun Lady To Be With.)

[bmccasland]

And a Jazz funeral, complete with a second line. Got to love New Orleans jazz processions for any occasion.

[lph]

I haven't figured out what's going on my headstone (No more hills to climb was good!) but I have put a little thought into what kind of headstone I'd like. As a rock climber, an impossibly steep overhang would be nice, but it would look kind of strange in small scale. Guess I'll have to settle for a perfect granite slab with no holds... Or a vertical rock with a single crack running down the middle

Yep, I'm being literal. My brother dying last year made this whole burial thing quite "normal", it's the only given thing with anybodys life, after all.

He ended up with an incredibly inappropriate tall pointed black monolith, in a graveyard covered with sweet and discreet little gray rocks. He sure would have got a kick out of knowing that!

[Bad JuJu]

I like this line from Phillip Roth: "The road to hell is paved with works in progress."

I wonder whether you have to get copyright permission to use a quote on your headstone.

[massbikebabe]

I was having these funky symptoms before they finally found that I had a stroke, I think my doctor thought I was crazy!! So I want my tombstone to read,

SEE I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!!!!




karen

[Bikingmomof3]

I was having these funky symptoms before they finally found that I had a stroke, I think my doctor thought I was crazy!! So I want my tombstone to read,

SEE I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!!!!




karen

Karen,
I too had a stroke and always thought, "Now do you believe I was not feeling well" would be appropiate.

[mimitabby]

That makes 3 so far who are saying "see I told you I was sick"
what's that about? do doctors and loved ones not take us seriously enough
when we're HAVING STROKES and heart attacks and stuff?
that's scary too.

[roadie gal]

I want to donate my carcass to a medical school for the students to learn on. But I'd like a plaque with one of my favorite sayings:

"'Tis a weird, wild clime, that lieth sublime
Out of space and out of time..."

It's by Edgar Allen Poe. It's perfect for me.

[snapdragen]

I'm with roadie gal, donate the whole shebang to science, give me a plaque on a bench at the zoo or something.

One of my favorites is Jabberwocky, guess I'll need a good sized plaque...

[SadieKate]

Now if we're talking songs. "On the big rock candy mountain! That's where I like to be. Where the hens lay boiled eggs . . . ."

What's with all the singing today? I haven't even had my coffee.

[lizbids]

I wish I could be as witty as Dorothy Parker, who would have liked her tombstone to read, "Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. ..."

But maybe it can be more simple, something like, "The tailwinds have stopped."

[Trek420]

I've signed the little card for organ donation, also on list for bone marrow donation so any parts they want....get 'em while they're hot...or at least luke warm.

After that toast me up, scatter me at a favorite place to be determined later...Sonoma Coastline comes to mind...everyone take a bike ride out to Jenner, quietly off the stairs to Pt. Reyes Light House, or climb Diablo and that way I COULD get to the top....afterward have a wild party and there'd da*n well better be gooood chocolate.

I go for the bench or picnic table.

Choice of

"if you can read this, why aren't you riding?" or

"Don't die wondering"

[mimitabby]

..everyone take a bike ride out to Jenner, quietly off the stairs to Pt. Reyes Light House, or climb Diablo and that way I COULD get to the top....afterward have a wild party and there'd da*n well better be gooood chocolate.

"

GOOD idea!!

[Trek420]

Yeah, but no rush. don't sound so enthusiastic I've been to one memorial with a rolling escort to the service, no hurry for mine.

How about we all have to ride the persons age to the party? The Trek Memorial Century.

[Trek420]

Maybe with a plaque. Can't think of anything funny enough right now. Gotta have something to do with sitting on your butt and how you gotta sit on it once in a while to really live.

(which is true. If I don't get my spacing-out time, I am Not A Fun Lady To Be With.)

How about this poem:

Butt prints in the sand

One night I had a wondrous dream, One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of the Goddess they were, But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared, and I asked Her, "What have we here?
These prints are large and round and neat, But much too big to be from feet."

"My child," She said in somber tones, "For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith, But you refused and made me wait."

"You would not learn, you would not grow, The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up, And there I dropped you on your butt.

"Because in life, there comes a time When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand, Or leave their butt prints in the sand."