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How do you want your headstone to read?
« on: February 01, 2009, 12:41:37 PM »
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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2009, 12:59:28 PM »
I told you I was ill...
Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.

There is an exception to every rule, apart from this one.

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2009, 01:02:46 PM »
" Yeah,,try and collect that money now, sucker!"

Or something to that extent
I keep my standards low.
That way im never disapointed.

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2009, 07:57:09 PM »
I already had this planned out by the time I hit high school. 

I want Christina Rossetti's poem Remember on my headstone.  I quite haven't figured out how to manage it because I want to be cremated.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2009, 08:11:12 PM »
I haven't thought about this much but I like the one Phil Laak (pro poker play) has chosen.

"Into this world without my consent. Leaving this world against my will.''
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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2009, 08:23:54 PM »
I told you I was ill...

That's what my dad wants on his, too  :D

Like subvinorosa, I'm going to be cremated  :P

If I did have a tombstone, it would say something like, "I'm watching you while you take a shower."

I saw a creepy one once that said, "As I am now, you soon shall be, so prepare for death and follow me"
Size, it doesn't matter to me so long as I get it...Gotta go now.

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2009, 09:33:57 PM »
How about the music notation to "DOnt Fear The Reaper" by the Blue Oyster Cult
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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2009, 01:54:58 AM »
"Here lies an atheist, with no place to go"

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2009, 03:35:14 AM »
That's what my dad wants on his, too  :D

It is of course a quote from the inimitable, comic genious that was Spike Milligan, and I believe it is on his headstone.
Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2009, 09:16:05 AM »
"Back in a sec."

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2009, 10:50:50 AM »
wow i've never spend a thought about this yet ..

:D  maybe something along the lines of:

que sera, sera

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2009, 12:53:47 PM »
im probably going to donate my body to a medical school, so students can use my body as a learning tool to help them care for patients better. and poke my liver to see what a lot of drinking can do  ;D

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2009, 01:00:18 PM »
NEXT!
I keep my standards low.
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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2009, 01:11:05 PM »
"Back in a sec."

christ's will probably read "Have a nice weekend, see you Monday".  Actually knowing him he'd start quoting Newton and the difference between the Judean and Julian calendars...
Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.

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Re: How do you want your headstone to read?
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2009, 01:19:03 PM »
christ's will probably read "Have a nice weekend, see you Monday". 

Damn, that's a better phrase, I'm bummed I didn't think of it first.  ;D

Actually knowing him he'd start quoting Newton and the difference between the Judean and Julian calendars...

On his headstone?

Is there room for that?  :D