That ought to be enough information. If people don't already know you, and have some significant memory of you, by the time you're dead, haven't you left it a bit late?
Alternatively, maybe I have mild delusions of grandeur. A well-known phenomenon is that the more important someone is, the terser their epitaph.
I don't want a gravestone. Or a funeral. I want a wake, a proper one where people stay up all night and drink and dance and sing and celebrate life, all the life that still goes on. And then I want to be cremated, and my ashes to be scattered on the waves. I don't want a physical object associated with my death if I can possibly avoid it.
Have what you like on your gravestone; if I outlive you, I'd prefer to just keep the memories of you.
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Date: 2003-07-08 07:35 am (UTC)No... not the URL
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Date: 2003-07-08 08:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 08:11 am (UTC)On yours.. hmm.. "I never knew where I was going, but I got there in the end".
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Date: 2003-07-08 08:18 am (UTC)That ought to be enough information. If people don't already know you, and have some significant memory of you, by the time you're dead, haven't you left it a bit late?
Alternatively, maybe I have mild delusions of grandeur. A well-known phenomenon is that the more important someone is, the terser their epitaph.
Napoleon's tomb just says "N".
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 08:30 am (UTC)or possibly
'Help, help, I'm not dead yet!'
or something in some random script that it'll take people years to decipher. Plus I want to be buried in a pyramid.
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Date: 2003-07-08 09:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 08:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 08:45 am (UTC)I think 'On yours' is a very strange thing to want to have written on your gravestone. What is it supposed to mean?
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 08:56 am (UTC)Because I like bad puns; and Fields of the Nephilim.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 09:01 am (UTC)Have what you like on your gravestone; if I outlive you, I'd prefer to just keep the memories of you.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 10:07 am (UTC)And for mine, can I request "Thank the Goddess that shit is over with"
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 10:54 am (UTC)Here lies the body of Mary Lee
Who finally died at 103
For 18 years, she kept her virginity
Not a bad record for this vicinity
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 03:30 pm (UTC)Always one of my fave quotes
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-08 04:00 pm (UTC)On mine, I quite like the idea of:
"THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here"
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Date: 2003-07-09 02:16 pm (UTC)If anyone tried to erect any kind of memorial to me I'd be very pissed off. Except that I'd be dead and so wouldn't notice... hmmm