What would you like written on your gravestone?
Me: "He Meant Well."
Me: "He Meant Well."
Your Epitaph
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Well shit, that didn't work.
I will likely be cremated since plots are expensive and probably just my sister and daughter would be around to visit.
Just a simple box or urn is sufficient, ideally in a discreet yet open place in my daughter's home so I can watch her grow.
It's weird how having children changes you. At one point I was aeemingly chasing my grave. Now I hope I can make it passed 58, unlike my father, grandfather, and great grandfather.
Just a simple box or urn is sufficient, ideally in a discreet yet open place in my daughter's home so I can watch her grow.
It's weird how having children changes you. At one point I was aeemingly chasing my grave. Now I hope I can make it passed 58, unlike my father, grandfather, and great grandfather.
I’ve explicitly told my children to have me cremated and spread my ashes somewhere
"Thank God that's over with!"
That's a pretty good epitaph too. Your kids' epitaphs would then have to relate something about explicitly ignoring their father's simplest instructions.
Same here.
Ashes back to the earth.
Screw a head stone and grave site nobody will visit and just cost a bunch of money. Here in Texas you can get cremated in a cardboard box for 1200. Done
I told mine to throw some out in a random farm field to be toiled back into the soil, throw some out on a mountain and the rest dump in the sea.
They have the memories of me, that's enough.
As a Geologist, I'd appreciate my elements going back to where they came from.
That's how I'm going out as well. Already paid for.
This guy's family had the right idea when they donated a park bench in his memory.
Based.
Based.
To serve as inspiration for those who stand above my grave:
Non ministrari, sed ministrare
Non ministrari, sed ministrare
As a non-practicing Buddhist, a cremation sounds like a great way to burn out. I'll go with that.
Ya, what if nobody stands above your grave?
“I’m not quite dead yet; I feel happy….”
Similar: I’ve told my wife to have me cremated and then spread my ashes somewhere she’d love to visit.
The man who mows the grass might might wonder what the phrase means and look it up.
I'm not judging here, but rather curious how others perceive death.
Do you really believe that a box or urn with your ashes in it will enable your consciousness, or soul, or whatever, to watch anything that happens after you pass?
Mine will probably read something like this...
I'm hoping for oblivion.
My best friend was shot and killed by the local sheriff's department in 2011 at 21 years old. He always told his mom he wanted to be shot out of fireworks. That following 4th of July we watched him go out in a bang.
I'll also be cremated. Losing both my parents at the age of 57, I know how expensive it is.