What do you want to have written on your gravestone?

Imek

I want to make this a slightly more light-hearted thread than some might expect, so here are what I might want:

"Here lies <My full name>, and he's bloody annoyed"

or

"Here lies <My full name>, we are richer for having lost him"

Let's see if this takes off..
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SLH · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Newark, DE

One that I saw in the Sandman books stuck with me:

"Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind."

Change Her with His, and we're in business.
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Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject:

I used to be afraid I'd end up with the following on my tombstone:

nixnut · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:

Mind the gap

or "see other side" on both sides.
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rraymond · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 15 Location: VA

Here lies Robert Raymond,

Windows crashed, he didn't get out of the way.

Quotenjunkie · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 47

ready to take off

Leunix · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

i'm next to stupid ?

Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject:

I'll be back when the stars are right again.

jjihn · n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Indiana, US

I want my entire estate invested in bonds and used to buy a wireless hotspot at my grave site... I want my body dipped and encased in that sap the mosquitos were in in Jurassic Park, with my hands, exposed but dipped in gold, holding a wireless access point. It will be completely free to use, but i'll have etched on my grave "please place flowers for your sovereign"... There will also be a captive portal, and when you first open your browser it will point you to a web site with all of my Roms, Oggs, etc... free for download, and a little information about me.

At first, people will just visit my grave for free internet access, but I'm hoping eventually a few will start a cult in my honor. And no, my children will get nothing... except free internet access when the come to visit. Ooh, and I want glass eyes inserted into my head with some servo's so they can pitch back and forth wildly every once in a while... maybe some pimped out cathode ray tubes and some bitchin' 120mm fans... I'd also have a greeting card printing center in the back, with things like "Happy Birthday from Mike! <insert picture of rotting corpse>" ... oh yeah... this will work...

nrl · Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Glasgow, UK

In very small print so people need to get up close:

SLH · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Newark, DE

Not dead, merely waiting.
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Leunix · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Seeing that I am getting creamated and thrown somewhere, I will not be having a tomb stone.

Ari Rahikkala · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Finland

I'm not planning to die :p.

Anyway...

"There is no friend
anywhere"
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homeobocks · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject:

Given M. Sur · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

I don't want a tombstone. It's a waste of space.
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hellbringer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 82

I don't wan't a tomb either but I read somewhere that there was a tombstone with this written:

"Here lies my Wife. I rest in peace."
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Alien Orifice · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject:

jjihn, that was f*ckin' great! Every bit was comedy gold! HAHahahahahahahaaa.

Ok, if I am lucky enough to get a tombstone ( I may need an unmarked grave to prevent desecration. This hinges on how well my campaign to rid earth of fools goes... ) it will be carved in the shape of a hand, giving the middle finger. A small plaque at the base of the middle knuckle will say:

"emerge sync && emerge -uD consciousness"
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Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject:

I'm surprised nobody suggested "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

pjp · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

Burial is a waste of perfectly good land.

In the spirit of the thread though, "Don't you have anything better to do?" would work.
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nixnut · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject:

Just one step more please. Never mind that claymore.
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Flammie · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

"This is not a tombstone!"
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nixnut · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject:

"nixnut was here"
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Anior · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject:

kill -11 $(pgrep Full Name)

15245 Segmentation fault Full Name

real 315366836m22.118s
user 138634834m39.439s
sys 243843532m7.301s

riis · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject:

Well, my body not being worth donkeys dong after my brain fries (other than organs being useable), I don't see the need to get burried. Can you just get, well I don't know, not done anything too, just cremated/burned and not have the ashes put anywhere (other than the trash) or is that illegal?

If I have to have a tombstone I guess it should say something like "Nothing to see here", or "This is a waste of everyones time!" or how 'bout "All your graves are belong to us!"....no skip that last one....