Your Grave

[shortpaleanddead]

"Where there is a tree of knowledge,there is always paradise:"so say the most ancient and the most modern serpents.-Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond good and evil

[soothsayer]

Shortpaleanddead ~ you put thought into yours. I like it. I'm still not sure what mine will say but I do want a head stone. No cremation for me. I want to be buried among loved ones and I want my head stone to look really good. Something that'll stand out above the rest.

[Scary Guy]

Yeah I'm adding that to my favorite quotes list...

BTW you sayin' I'm evil?

Ignorance is not bliss to me.

Also.... found in my quotes list:

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. [Wilson Mizner]

Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it ends up killing all its students.

Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.

"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."

"Incoming fire has the right of way."

"Five second fuses only last three seconds."

"Friendly fire... isn't."

"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment." — Dag Hammarskjöld

It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for. —Anonymous

oh screw it http://www.virtualblood.com/media/texts/quotes.odt (you need openoffice.org to read it).

[Fierce Critter]

Just a note. A decent number of cemeteries use footstones, not headstones - including where my brother is buried.

So the ones about "you're standing on my head" and stuff might not work depending on where you wanna be buried.

[soothsayer]

What I really want is a crypt. They will notice me even in my afterlife. :devil

[lullaby1031]

It's really to bad that they won't let people put up the huge headstones anymore. To many bastard kids go in there and ruin them.... A few friends and I sometimes went out to this one in Redford and would pick stuff off of them cuz they had no caretaker. Sad really.. walkin about there and seeing them all smashed to shit and spray painted.. :erm very disrespectful

[Fierce Critter]

The main reason behind the new trend toward strictly flat-on-the-ground stones is grass maintenance. They can put the blade on a huge mower up an inch or two and run right over the stones.

And I think that restriction sucks.

[lullaby1031]

Yeah I know - but the older ones need to be taken care of and there's to many of those that just sit there and get "grown" over.. They would look awesome if someone took the time to clear them out...

When I worked at a florist - people would come in and want to get "grave blankets" for their deceased and sometimes we would have to tell them no because that certain place didn't allow them there. Too much clean up in the spring..

[honeymustard02]

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave

safely in a well preserved body, but rather

to skid in sideways, totally worn out,

shouting "..... holy shit.... what a ride!"

[SomeDanGuy]

No gravestone for me...or grave for that matter. Since I won't really care what goes on after I'm dead, I don't see a point in wasting space.

[Scary Guy]

No gravestone for me...or grave for that matter.  Since I won't really care what goes on after I'm dead, I don't see a point in wasting space.

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Just worm food, or donate yourself to science.

[LadyWolf]

Epitaphs

1. Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:

Here lies

Johnny Yeast

Pardon me

For not rising.

2. Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:

Here lies the body

of Jonathan Blake

Stepped on the gas

Instead of the brake.

3. In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:

Here lays Butch,

We planted him raw.

He was quick on the trigger,

But slow on the draw.

4. Lester Moore, a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent in

the cowboy days of the 1880's.

He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona:

Here lies Lester Moore

Four slugs from a .44

No Les No More.

5. In a Georgia cemetery:

"I told you I was sick!"

6. On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia:

She always said her feet were killing her

but nobody believed her.

7. In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:

On the 22nd of June

- Jonathan Fiddle -

Went out of tune.

8. More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England:

Gone away

Owin' more

Than he could pay.

9. On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under the sod and under the trees

Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.

He is not here, there's only the pod:

Pease shelled out and went to God.

10. In a cemetary in England:

Remember man, as you walk by,

As you are now, so once was I,

As I am now, so shall you be,

Remember this and follow me.

- To which someone replied by writing on the tombstome:

To follow you I'll not consent,

Until I know which way you went.

11. In a London, England cemetery:

Here lies Ann Mann,

Who lived an old maid

But died an old Mann.

Dec. 8, 1767

12. A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery:

Sacred to the memory of

my husband John Barnes

who died January 3, 1803

His comely young widow, aged 23, has

many qualifications of a good wife, and

yearns to be comforted.

[DisturbedMania]

I'm thinking mummified and kept in a coffin in the basement so all the neighborhood kids can be terrified. I don't think I really could be anything but creamated sheerly because I don't want any family input as to what a potential tombstone might say.

Must adjust dental records and eliminate fingerprints..... (j/k)

[squee]

i have no idea what i want...

i'd rather not think about it

[Scary Guy]

Well just don't keep that mentality because when it finally happens then you're screwed.

And it could happen at any time.

ANY TIME!

Hopefully no time soon though for any of us.

Personally my death scares the hell out of me. I try not to think about it either but at least I'm prepared for if and when it happens (I say if because I like most am looking for a cure for death, I should be spending most of my free time on this project since when my time is up I won't have any more free time to spend).

Oh how appropriate, on winamp just now "Type O Negative - Everything Dies" just came on.

I hate irony sometimes.

[SomeDanGuy]

Me too; death is the only thing that scares me and has for years. If I've been so worried about death since 16, I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun when/if I'm 60 :-/

[The_Dark]

I'm not afraid of Death. I don't embrace it, but it in no way has power over me. If I die, I just hope it happens quick, painless wont matter if it's quick enough. The after life, that scares me. The BIG Unknown.

[DarkChylde]

Me, I dont want ta be buried nor creamated, I just want my dead rotting carcass posted on a steak in a kids playground stinking up the whole park causing fly's n maggots being displayed from my mouth for all the kiddie's ta know how wonderful death can Look/smell.

[TomCat]

Hell, I'll die broke & penniless, they'll creamate me, & probably use my ashes for fertilizer.

[Vater Araignee]

ATT. Goths!

I know that there

is nothing I can

say that will convince

you not to screw on

my grave, but know

this if you skeet that

shit on my head stone

I will haunt your dick.