What do you want on your tombstone?

[Audax67]

So what do you want on your tombstone, urn or other memorial?

[gaz]

I want no tombstone, urn or other memorial.

If I must have one then RDPR seems better than RIP .

[Ray]

'What was all that about?'

Ray

[hubgearfreak]

quite possibly, SMIDSY

[byegad]

To answer seriously.

Byegad!* Died doing what he loved at 101. Sadly missed. He lived life to the full.

*My real name obviously.

[BeeKeeper]

I prefer the idea of a "sky burial" - just leave my body somewhere for the vultures. However, around here it would probably be mostly crows and magpies fighting over the choicest bits but at least my body would be appreciated by something as opposed to contributing to global warming in an incinerator or taking up valuable land better used for agriculture in a churchyard.

What a cheerful topic!

[freeflow]

'Damn, he's late again!!!'

[TonyR]

I like Spike Milligan's "I told you I was ill"

[Ray]

I like Spike Milligan's "I told you I was ill"

Yes, and I like the idea that you (the deceased) might have your own 'famous last words' set in stone.
Payback time

Ray

[Vantage]

"If only for a short distance, proved that touring bikes could fly"

[JohnW]

"If only for a short distance, proved that touring bikes could fly"

[Mike Sales]

Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

[shouldbeinbed]

After whatever of me that may be useful has been salvaged, I've told my family to cremate the rest and sprinkle me wherever they take the water for the Lagavulin distillery.

I hope my (ahem) tombstone will say I'm aged 16 years and 43% proof, even if it is only at a homeopathic level.

[Greybeard]

Died 93 years of age - shot by a jealous husband

Steve (wot would like to think it'd still take a while to get the lid down )

[Mick F]

I like Spike Milligan's "I told you I was ill"

Actually, that's what he wanted, but after he was buried they weren't allowed to set the headstone with that written on it. Something about "bad taste" that the authorities complained about.

Instead, it's inscribed in Irish!

He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish translation, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", and, additionally in English, "Love, light, peace".

Personally, I don't want anything. I don't want anyone to spend any money on me after I've gone. Just shove me in the recycling bin with all my empty wine bottles.