What do you want on your tombstone?

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kwackers wrote:Here lies Kwackers
1960-2260.
So long suckers!

Sounds like you're a quitter.

Anyone who expects, or has any intention of dying is a quitter.
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Hi,
Absolutely ZILCH...............no remains and no marker.
Some want to be remember..red, what for :?:
Dont like any type of idolism, if you need a marker there is some self doubt of I will be forgotten, well you will when your dead.
If you are a believer it might hasten your exit, I believe, so I will rest, if I go the other way then it will be non existance and I will know nothing.
Best some can hope for is they will be remembered by an empty space they will leave.

Or to be mean you can tell everyone that you will remember them in your will, even give them a copy then change it the next day and leave it all to a dogs home :lol:
Then you will be remembered.
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote:Or to be mean you can tell everyone that you will remember them in your will, even give them a copy then change it the next day and leave it all to a dogs home :lol:
Then you will be remembered.


Then there was that will that read "...and to Howard, whom I promised to remember in my will: Hello, Howard."
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Mick F wrote:
kwackers wrote:Here lies Kwackers
1960-2260.
So long suckers!

Sounds like you're a quitter.

Anyone who expects, or has any intention of dying is a quitter.



I received a letter this morning (regarding a personal claim) which stated that my life expectancy was another 28.7 years.
Well, I think 88 years will be enough for me! :wink:

And if nothing changes, I won't be having a tombstone... I fancy a green burial with a tree planted on top of me. :mrgreen:
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A friend of my fathers asked for his ashes to be spread on Cross Fell, the highest point in the Pennines at a shade under 3,000 feet and not an easy place to get to by any standards. He requested this because it was the first place he had seen a Dotterel.

Dutifully a select band of hardy mourners made their way to the summit of Cross Fell but it was blowing such a gale if they had tried to scatter his ashes they were probably going to land in the North Sea so they tucked them in their little jar under some stones - where I can only hope they remain.
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fausto copy wrote:And if nothing changes, I won't be having a tombstone... I fancy a green burial with a tree planted on top of me. :mrgreen:

hopefully the tree won't be transplanted. I wast digging up some trees for my parents, and I remember that we planted trees when we buried our cats, but I couldn't remember which ones. Thankfully I found nothing
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Mr. Viking wrote:hopefully the tree won't be transplanted. I wast digging up some trees for my parents, and I remember that we planted trees when we buried our cats, but I couldn't remember which ones. Thankfully I found nothing

I was cleaning out my mums garage when I found "Lucky" her cat that had gone missing some years earlier...
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Hi,
BeeKeeper wrote:A friend of my fathers asked for his ashes to be spread on Cross Fell, the highest point in the Pennines at a shade under 3,000 feet and not an easy place to get to by any standards.

Been there a number of times, adjacent to Gt Dun Fell highest ever recorded land wind speed 169 MPH in england freezing temp 150 days and snow 100 days a year, he knew his location well, reputed to be renamed from Fiends Fell by a man of the cloth to cross (angry) fell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Fell
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I don't need no tombstone.

I believe I shall live forever and will continue in that belief until the day I die.
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