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What would it be? Mines would be a lovely little poem I found on the internet today:

Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sun on ripened grain. I am the soothing, gentle rain.
When you awake in morning hush, I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.
- Anon.

Beautiful, I feel.

very nice poem. my choices are somewhat more crude...


"wishing you were here"


or, perhaps better


"stand on my grave and i'll rip your fucking dick off!"

If I had the guts and it weren't already taken, I'd go with this one:

"If you can read this, you're standing on me!"

(Yes, that's really on a tombstone in the cemetary at the college I attended. I very much wish I had known the professor who came up with it in life, since he had to be awesome.) :p

"If you can read this, you're standing on me!"

Woah, that's a good one!

"This is bullshit." is going on mine.

"We are richer for having lost her"

- Stolen from a Simpsons episode

"We are richer for having lost her"

- Stolen from a Simpsons episode

Lol.

What's next, "Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead" being sung at the funeral? :D

Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up with nowhere to go.

Lol.

What's next, "Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead" being sung at the funeral? :D

my english teacher is going to have her family play the song "another one bites the dust" at her funeral

Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up with nowhere to go.

A classic. I would have went for that one, but then I read the poem.

Are you asking me to write my epitaph? Right now??

That's just depressing.

its not to depressing, iam 16 and i have a will

Are you asking me to write my epitaph? Right now??

That's just depressing.

Then again, I am very depressed. I also belive in thinking ahead, so that you get the sendoff you want. This way I don't get a Christian funeral...

Then again, I am very depressed. I also belive in thinking ahead, so that you get the sendoff you want. This way I don't get a Christian funeral...

Oh, I definitely won't be getting one of those!

;)

Mine's going to read:

"Martin - did a lot of shit in life that didn't mean a whole lot. Except that cancer cure thing, that was pretty cool"

It'll either confuse the hell out of people or mean I achieved my ultimate goal :p

EDIT: And that's going to be etched along the piece of viking longboat that survives the funeral pyre.

"We are richer for having lost her"

- Stolen from a Simpsons episode

"No one's gay for Moleman."

Also stolen from the Simpsons. Can you imagine coming across that in a cemetery?

I'll go with the classic giant tombstone. So big you can walk on it. Right in the middle, there would be a small piece of text ; You're standing on my balls.

its not to depressing, iam 16 and i have a will

I would have a will, but I have nothing to give as my leagacy yet.

Except my organs.

I would have a will, but I have nothing to give as my leagacy yet.

Except my organs.

Dibs on the left kidney.

"Sov i ro, du gamla sångarhjärta!
Tiden med dess mångbesjungna smärta
Skall ej tränga inom gravens frid.
Ej du saknar livets snabba stunder:
Ack! du har så trevligt här inunder,
Knuffas ej av en orolig tid."

Dibs on the left kidney.

If you're in Scotland at the time of my death and need a kidney, you can have it. Hell, take both, I wont be needing them...

"Sov i ro, du gamla sångarhjärta!
Tiden med dess mångbesjungna smärta
Skall ej tränga inom gravens frid.
Ej du saknar livets snabba stunder:
Ack! du har så trevligt här inunder,
Knuffas ej av en orolig tid."

I would probably say something like "Beautiful, just beautiful", but I don't know sweedish.

"For a good bone, dig here"

If you're in Scotland at the time of my death and need a kidney, you can have it. Hell, take both, I wont be needing them...

Yay, now does anyone know a good red wine that goes well with kidneys?

I would probably say something like "Beautiful, just beautiful", but I don't know sweedish.
Ditto. You could probably say "If you cant read this, you are a <insert mass insult here>" and I'd be like "Wow, that was so moving". *weeps into a handkerchief*

Yay, now does anyone know a good red wine that goes well with kidneys?

I don't know about that, but I'll bet that my liver would go really well with a shot of Whisky.

I would probably say something like "Beautiful, just beautiful", but I don't know sweedish.

Swedish is spelled with one "e", and of course the poem loses its intonation and rhyme when translated, so this is just a literal translation of what it basically means:

"Sleep in peace, thou old singers' heart!
Time and its widely sung pain
Shall not pierce through the tranquillity of the grave.
Thou dost not miss the fast moments in life:
Alas, you have such a pleasant time here below,
Undisturbed by a worried time."

My personal favourite -

Royal Tenenbaum's epitaph: Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum (1932-2001) Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Remains Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship

"No one's gay for Moleman."

Also stolen from the Simpsons. Can you imagine coming across that in a cemetery?

It would be kind of scary if the ones around it read "Frank Grimey Grimes" and Snowball II ;)

Now that I'm dead, all my damn greedy relatives are going to squabble over my money

Swedish is spelled with one "e", and of course the poem loses its intonation and rhyme when translated, so this is just a literal translation of what it basically means:

"Sleep in tranquillity, thou old singers' heart!
Time and its widely sung pain
Shall not pierce through the peace of the grave.
Thou dost not miss the fast moments in life:
Alas, you have such a pleasant time here below,
Undisturbed by a worried time."

Sorry about that. Shows how little Swedish I know really...

And as to the poem, beautiful, just beautiful.

Most likely, it sounds better in it's true form.

"I waited [x] number of years and this is what's at the end of the line?
I want a refund."

"I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either."

Im dead.How are you!?

this what mine is going to say
"this is my epitaph, now go away" or
" was it love or was it the chocolate?"

"If you're reading this, it means that nobody listened to what I wanted done with my corpse."


Just drop my lifeless corpse in the middle of a forest where, hopefully, some plants and trees will grow from it.

"If you're reading this, it means that nobody listened to what I wanted done with my corpse."


Just drop my lifeless corpse in the middle of a forest where, hopefully, some plants and trees will grow from it.

Afraid wild animals will just tear your carcass up and no real fertilization will take place. Got to bury you first.

Mine would be "Hmm... I'm bored. I think I'll haunt you."

Penn and Teller have a prehumous (if that's a word) tombstone-like thing that says "Is this your card?" with a picture of the 3 of clubs.

Since I'm hoping that they will never find my body, my epitaph should read under those circumstances: "This Space For Rent."

If my corpse is found and I'm buried, I want something simple like:

"No Vacancy."

or maybe...

"Ow."

or...

"I zigged when I should've zagged."

:)

i think i'll have:

here lies callum curnin, (1991-????) and he's pissed off. :headbang:

I haven't decided yet but I'm thinking about:

"I've been through worse."

"Today's a good day to die. If only I had waited."

"To be honest, I've had better days."

"Look, I don't care what you put on my tombstone."

Probably:

Commended into the Love, Mercy, and Power of the Lord.

Here lies a woman who lived life for all that it's worth.

Where can a dead man go?
The question with an answer only dead men know.

All that is gold does not glitter;
Not all those who wander are lost.

Eh...I'm not really sure. More than likely I'll figure out a bible verse I wish to have written on it.

If I know I've got some sort of deadly disease or am just getting really old, I'll want to be burned at the stake. No, seriously, I will. Nothing to me, not even death in and of itself, is so terrifying as the thought of my life meaning absolutely nothing to anyone. The thought that NO ONE will remember I ever existed and I might as well have not lived at all...
So I want to go out with a bang, and people will remember me a little longer than they otherwise would have. As for the pain, well, I'm hoping to asphyxiate on the smoke before the flames actually reach me. Then I'll spend my afterlife haunting theatres. I spend all of my free time there anyway. The people at State College have begun to call me "the Ghost of the Davis Fine Arts Building" and at school I'm "the Phantom of the school auditorium". So I've made my start already.
As for my epitaph, I'll probably say, "To die; to sleep; no more. And by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. To die; to sleep. To sleep; perchance to dream." That's Hamlet, for those of you who don't recognize it. About halfway through the famous "To be or not to be" monologue.

"Gamers, roll a Knowledge: Planes check and cast a True Ressurrection, please."
"Ah well."
"I'd not be upset if it wasn't for this itch on my back..."
"So, turns out the universe outlived me. Big let-down!"

Probably:

Commended into the Love, Mercy, and Power of the Lord.

Here lies a woman who lived life for all that it's worth.

Where can a dead man go?
The question with an answer only dead men know.

All that is gold does not glitter;
Not all those who wander are lost.

Eh...I'm not really sure. More than likely I'll figure out a bible verse I wish to have written on it.

i like that, its really pritty

"macho, Macho Man! I Wanna Be, A Macho Man!"

Have a mound of soil on your grave with some turf on top. Then the epitaph can read "See that bulge - proof you go stiff when you die" :p

I have a few that I feel I would like

Do not stand by my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints upon the snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain and
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush,
I am that swift uplifting rush,
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.

I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.

Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:
A gentler Lamb ne'er sported on the plain,
A fairer flower will never bloom again:
Few were the days allotted to his breath;
Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your Peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow Love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.

Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Those are the 5 that I think are nice.

AP

Listen now to the wind
Listen now to the rain
I feel that water licking at my feet again
I don't want to see this town anymore
Wasting my days on the factory floor
This first thing you know I'll be back in Bowe River again.

Mine only works if my body get's dealt with as I want it to. That being the coffin sealed and launched into space.

If you are reading this, I am no longer lost in space.

"There's always time for a zombie armaggedon."
or

"ZOMBIES ARE PEOPLE TOO!!"

mine would be "may flights of devils bring you to your rest"

"What did she do to deserve it all?"

"I'll Be Back"

Actually, if I can't get the enormous palatial mausoleum, with the booby traps and mad cultists, then I would like my gravestone to be a 2 person stone bench, extra comfy, with ash trays on each armrest and an inscription reading "Herbal Burnt Offerings Gratefully Accepted".

Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up with nowhere to go.

u get that from fable?

"I Was Young, I Didnt Know What Pressing The Little Red Button Would Do!"

"Let me out! I'm claustrophobic! I don't like dark places! Is that a worm in my ear? Ahhhhh, gross!"

I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.

That was on my friends memorial card just this past may


as for my epitaph, I have a few choices...


"Doing shots with Jesus and St. Peter. Back in 10."
"I told you I was sick."
"He saw the light, and put on sunglasses"
"He came, he saw, he wen't back to sleep."
"<== We're partying tonight. see you there ==>"

Your Epitaph.

I Told You I Was Sick.

was the king's good servant, but the Lord's first

I want Hells Bells played at the start of my funeral and Highway to Hell played as I am lowered into my grave.

What I want is something like "I'm not really here, I'm on the Highway to Hell, and I'm not alone. I serve Satan and I know I am not alone. I am buried by this fucking stone."

I want Hells Bells played at the start of my funeral and Highway to Hell played as I am lowered into my grave.

What I want is something like "I'm not really here, I'm on the Highway to Hell, and I'm not alone. I serve Satan and I know I am not alone. I am buried by this fucking stone."

That is so beautiful, It made me cry.

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I fully intend to think of something insightful to put here before I die.