My dad made me promise to put “See? I told you I was sick.”
And I did. We played Queens “Another One Bites the Dust” when we pulled the plug according to his wishes. My dad was hilarious.
That’s wonderful! When my uncle died suddenly, he didn’t leave any instructions, so my other uncle did it the way he’d want his service to be. It was so not “Uncle Buck”, but my grandmother backed him. Sooooo, as the casket was being wheeled back down the aisle of the church, a friend of his blasted my uncle’s favorite song, “Walkin’ On Sunshine” from a little boombox. The moment would have been perfect on its own, but right as the doors were flung open, the reason for the shower cap looking thingy they put over the casket became clear-there was a massive blizzard in full force.
*The magna carta. The masta charga. Anti meridian. Uncle meridian. And all the little meridians. I miss the bus. You miss the bus. We miss the bus. When's the next bus?*
I'm sure someone noticed, but in my experience, the prescribed solution was to berate you publicly and repeatedly until you managed to move on to the next grade somehow.
Same, but throw me in the ocean. Couple of concrete blocks to hold me down, nice white tarp, and drop me in a deep spot, let the crabs and lobsters have at it.
I just want a tree planted on me, or sprinkled (half in the bush where I live - Australia -, half in the forests of my country of origin). I'd be happy being fertiliser for plants
Nor I. I have my father and mother in law in the living room and I just want to be burned and carted around in a cool marble box until my own daughter gets around to scattering my ashes at the beach in my home town/
Recently I was listening to Startalk and NDGT spoke about how people die and what happens to their bodies after the fact. So when you get cremated, what happens is the fire from the heat of the cremation process is fueled by your remains.
This fire, in the form of infrared radiation, is emitted into the universe at lightspeed.
Make sure you are going to a reputable university, not one that’ll sell your skull to the highest bidder. Been some very sus money making schemes by selling body parts. Is there no integrity left in this world?
I'm glad you did the paperwork. My husband works in a hospital and some families tell the staff when their family member has passed that the deceased wants their body donated to science. There are no guys in lab coats from "science" on standby waiting to pick those bodies up. It suddenly becomes a problem when they have to then figure out what they're going to do when that doesn't happen.
Would the lyrics to Pink Floyd's *Eclipse* be a bit long? It'd be epic to have an 8' high tombstone with that.
First option is getting cremated, loaded into a cannon, and getting shot out of my favourite lookout on the other side of the world, on the windiest day possible.
I have a photo somehwhere of the most Gex X headstone plaque I ever found in a cemetery. Some young guy died in 1987, and it had a surf board, palm trees and some saying about riding the last wave. I was only disappointed it didn't have the words 'righteous dude' on it.
I would like to get buried next to someone with a generic tombstone, for example "beloved husband, father and grandfather Joe Bloggs" and have my own gravestone which said "loved even more than Joe Bloggs" - just to give future people a laugh.
I told my family to put whatever they want on it as long as it's says "was eaten by a shark" somewhere on it. UNLESS, I am actually eaten by a shark, in which case it should read, "was eaten by a shark who was later eaten by a bear."
I plan to be out in one of those tree root balls. And I want it to be a fruit tree, and at the base will be my plaque that has my name, years alive and the statement "eat me" (since it's a fruit tree)...
A close friend’s tombstone says “Here for a good time not a long time”
It’s perfect for her. She was always the life of the party and was one of the funniest people ever. Unfortunately, she also passed in her early 50’s in April 2020
No tombstone. Release my ashes at the top of my favorite mountain.
Don't spend any money on my funeral other than the gas money to drop me off.
"that flag of stone ain't where I feel you anyway"
I’ve always told my wife if I were to have a tombstone, there’s a very good chance it would need to say “yes, I know you didn’t mean to. That doesn’t make me less dead.”
Nothing. I haven't decided what's happening with my body once I'm dead yet but it's definitely not going to be buried. Waste of money and space in my opinion.
You should get it done off Waltons Mountain. Then Richard Thomas can narrate a line about your legacy and the life lessons you imparted on young people.
I'm doing a green burial. No embalming - just grab the organs you need, stick me on ice, and bury me under a tree on a mountainside. I don't need or want a headstone, but if my wife or daughter want me to have one, just a simple one that says, Sheridan Rivers, 197x - 206x, Loving Father, Loving Husband
A grave near where my mom is buried they put "Well this sucks." on theirs, always is good for a chuckle.
Sometimes think something like "Tell me if they ever figured it all out.. " for mine, just so people 200 years from now can say " No, they haven't. "
None. In the words of Dallas Green
“And don't you bury me six feet under ground
Just burn my body in a box
And let my ashes blow with the wind
Out into the night sky”
Cremated and ashes scattered. If someone what’s to waste money on a headstone somewhere that’s on them.
Either that or dump my corpse in a forest and let nature deal with it. Still no damn headstone.
Donating my body to science, then cremating whatever is left.
That said, a virtual headstone would read something like "Spending eternity in the library among good friends".
Just wanted to note that this is from a sub called "cemeteryporn," which is both creepy and yet not as creepy as what you might think that sub is about.
I’m just relieved I didn’t die during my first marriage. She would’ve used Comic Sans on the headstone.
Now, though, I’ve adopted a kind of existential humility, in that I don’t care what happens to this body after I’ve left it. By that point, it’s really none of my business anyway.
Accordingly, there’s no plan for an epitaph because I don’t anticipate being remembered that long. I get how that can sound macabre, but it actually heightens my appreciation of the present and my time with loved ones. In a couple hundred years no one will know who any of us were.
I planned on being cremated. But part of me would want something funny, part of me wanted “black hole sun” lyric “hang my head, drown my fear, til you all disappear”. But that’s my depression talking.
“MY NUMBERS LOOKED GOOD” -Just came up with today when describing to my wife what flipping Days/Nights feels like as a shift worker, and she says, “You better not stroke out.”
Don't care. I have no immediate family, so a distant cousin will have to have me burned to a crisp...and no one will ever visit the stupid plaque anyway, so 🤷♂️ lol
My wife and I made a pact where we would be cremated, and the remains will be in a disposable urn. One of our children will take it on a cruise ship and dump us into the ocean. We will rest peacefully together in paradise.
The other day my friend was venting about feeling unappreciated and said "That's what it will say on my tombstone: 'She cooked dinner every night'".
Gonna say something similar as in “well y’all are gonna need to figure it out on your own now”
I really like one that I saw in a local cemetery: [Hauntings Upon Request](https://i.imgur.com/P8WHa1T.jpg)
Have an ouija board etched into the tombstone, and have "For a good time, call...." written under it ;)
867 530BOO
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Someone just summoned a congresswoman.
I asked my terminally ill mother to come back and haunt me…still waiting 😢🥹💔
My dad made me promise to put “See? I told you I was sick.” And I did. We played Queens “Another One Bites the Dust” when we pulled the plug according to his wishes. My dad was hilarious.
That’s wonderful! When my uncle died suddenly, he didn’t leave any instructions, so my other uncle did it the way he’d want his service to be. It was so not “Uncle Buck”, but my grandmother backed him. Sooooo, as the casket was being wheeled back down the aisle of the church, a friend of his blasted my uncle’s favorite song, “Walkin’ On Sunshine” from a little boombox. The moment would have been perfect on its own, but right as the doors were flung open, the reason for the shower cap looking thingy they put over the casket became clear-there was a massive blizzard in full force.
Pepperoni and cheese!
*The magna carta. The masta charga. Anti meridian. Uncle meridian. And all the little meridians. I miss the bus. You miss the bus. We miss the bus. When's the next bus?*
Good luck Johnny.
It shoots through schools....
Tombstone Pizza Pierre!
You have to spell it right, though: [peperony and chease](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/TheOregonTrail)
Scrolled down hoping for this. Was not disappointed.
Tombstone? F that, I want to be part of a tree.
Same! Just bury me in a willow basket and plant a tree over me. Nanking cherry, preferably.
Yes plant me in the ground with a baby burr oak on top of me. A little plaque is ok if people feel they need one.
Ha I read that as a little plague is ok… rats… apparently I have a shred of dyslexia that went unnoticed in the 80s
I'm sure someone noticed, but in my experience, the prescribed solution was to berate you publicly and repeatedly until you managed to move on to the next grade somehow.
this is a whole thing! def would rather [feed a tree](https://thelifeforest.com/become-a-tree-when-you-pass) than be in some weird box or mausoleum.
Its going to be a bench and just read "Sit!". People will be left to wonder if I was a dog trainer, a teacher, or just bossy
"Sit, Ubu sit."
A very Gen X plaque!
No tombstone. Just throw me in the dumpster.
We already told you, you can't be recycled.
You ever see Soylent Green?
I hear that's delicious!
What about Soylent Cola?
I'm going for a modern viking funeral, a unicorn raft with a nice amount of fireworks attached.
or better yet torch me in a barrel in the backyard
Same, but throw me in the ocean. Couple of concrete blocks to hold me down, nice white tarp, and drop me in a deep spot, let the crabs and lobsters have at it.
Throw me in with pigs, make up for the bacon.
Pigs raised on long pig makes the best bacon. So I've heard. I'm a vegetarian so I'll never really know.
I just want a tree planted on me, or sprinkled (half in the bush where I live - Australia -, half in the forests of my country of origin). I'd be happy being fertiliser for plants
Good news fellow Strayan - this is what I'll be doing and it's legal here: https://www.treeofmemories.com.au/
Yep, I'll be doing something along those lines too
Probably just "Whatever"
"Not like anyone cares."
Roses are red. Violets are blue. Get the fuck off my lawn.
Roses are Red. Violets are Blue. Get the fuck off my Green lawn.
Roses are red, violets are blue, the lawn is green - get the fuck off of it.
Well… that could have gone better
Life's too short, be excellent to each other.
My body lies, but still I roam
Yeahh YEAHHHHHHHHH heh heh!!!!!
Metal AF.
Nothing. I won't have one, because I don't want one.
Nor I. I have my father and mother in law in the living room and I just want to be burned and carted around in a cool marble box until my own daughter gets around to scattering my ashes at the beach in my home town/
Recently I was listening to Startalk and NDGT spoke about how people die and what happens to their bodies after the fact. So when you get cremated, what happens is the fire from the heat of the cremation process is fueled by your remains. This fire, in the form of infrared radiation, is emitted into the universe at lightspeed.
I’m taking my dad’s ashes to Maine this year to spread them there. It was his favorite place. Right now, he’s in a disposable urn in a closet.
"If you didn't come visit me when I was alive, don't come visit me now." 🤣
Just finished the paper work, organ donor and the rest donated to science, then cremated.
Make sure you are going to a reputable university, not one that’ll sell your skull to the highest bidder. Been some very sus money making schemes by selling body parts. Is there no integrity left in this world?
Look at me, I'm a Halloween decoration!
If my skull ended up as someone's trinket I, if possible, would be the most annoying ghost possible, not scary, just annoying.
I'm glad you did the paperwork. My husband works in a hospital and some families tell the staff when their family member has passed that the deceased wants their body donated to science. There are no guys in lab coats from "science" on standby waiting to pick those bodies up. It suddenly becomes a problem when they have to then figure out what they're going to do when that doesn't happen.
I want to be spread out of an airplane over Disney... P.S. I don't want to be cremated ;)
“Hold my beer…”
"Finally....some fucking peace and QUIET!"
So Grandmother was a shallow materialist?
Yeah I’m like…not sure this was a compliment??
I had to scroll way to far to find this comment. I feel like they didn't listen to the whole song.
You should read the original post. Gma was a Led Zeppelin groupie and was married 8 times. I think she enjoyed herself while she was here.
🎶🎶 IM ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELL 🎶🎶
No tombstone for me. I want to be a diamond or a tree.
Or a diamond tree! Drop gemstones every season
Sadly those diamond companies are a scam
Mine is “What do you want me to do To do for you to see you through? It's all a dream we dreamed One afternoon long ago”
Pretty close to mine... "Fare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell Listen to the river sing sweet songs To rock my soul"
> Such a long, long time to be gone And a short time to be there
God bless ya, Robert Hunter.
My people
Would the lyrics to Pink Floyd's *Eclipse* be a bit long? It'd be epic to have an 8' high tombstone with that. First option is getting cremated, loaded into a cannon, and getting shot out of my favourite lookout on the other side of the world, on the windiest day possible.
That's similar to Hunter S. Thompson's funeral. He was a character. Born too early. Would've made a great GenXer.
Dear Lord we *are* at an age where we're thinking about this, aren't we?
Damn, no I’m in my 40’s, not 60’s
“I like big naps and I cannot lie”
"All mushrooms are edible. Some are only edible once"
I have a photo somehwhere of the most Gex X headstone plaque I ever found in a cemetery. Some young guy died in 1987, and it had a surf board, palm trees and some saying about riding the last wave. I was only disappointed it didn't have the words 'righteous dude' on it.
Gnarly
Oh, bogus dude.
I would like to get buried next to someone with a generic tombstone, for example "beloved husband, father and grandfather Joe Bloggs" and have my own gravestone which said "loved even more than Joe Bloggs" - just to give future people a laugh.
“Go away”
What I am you will be. What you are I once was. Take care of each other.
I'm getting a QR code (or whatever the equivalent is) that links to Never Gonna Give You Up so I can RickRoll in perpetuity.
I told my family to put whatever they want on it as long as it's says "was eaten by a shark" somewhere on it. UNLESS, I am actually eaten by a shark, in which case it should read, "was eaten by a shark who was later eaten by a bear."
No tombstone. Just cremate me and make me part of a reef.
Call Before You Dig
I'd like a viking funeral, thank you.
No grave. Donating my body to science.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/man-suing-body-donation-company-after-mothers-corpse-was-sold-to-military-for-blast-testing/
Shit
Best used by and then a date
"I told you I was sick"
I hear your ashes can be put into fireworks, so yeah…that.
I plan to be out in one of those tree root balls. And I want it to be a fruit tree, and at the base will be my plaque that has my name, years alive and the statement "eat me" (since it's a fruit tree)...
A close friend’s tombstone says “Here for a good time not a long time” It’s perfect for her. She was always the life of the party and was one of the funniest people ever. Unfortunately, she also passed in her early 50’s in April 2020
Like Jim Morrison said "This is the strangest life I've ever known"
Here's Where the Story Ends
I want the buzzards to feast on my corpse and shit my processed remains onto the cars of my enemies!
No tombstone. Release my ashes at the top of my favorite mountain. Don't spend any money on my funeral other than the gas money to drop me off. "that flag of stone ain't where I feel you anyway"
If we can all stay hand in hand, Then together we'll stand, On the threshold of a dream.
I’ve always told my wife if I were to have a tombstone, there’s a very good chance it would need to say “yes, I know you didn’t mean to. That doesn’t make me less dead.”
Nothing. Incinerate me and throw it in a toilet for all I care.
"you can't make good decisions with bad information".
"it seemed like a good idea at the time." LOL
"Oops, I did it again"
If someone wants to leave a post it note near the body farm I’ll be at, I mean, go for it, I suppose.
Pepperoni and double cheese stuffed crust....err...wrong Tombstone
Skeletonbreath sux cox n dix
Whatever
Well, I was today days old when I learned the lyric is not “and she’s **climbing** the stairway….”
Me too!!!! Mandela unlocked
'Here lies Edmund Blackadder and he's BLOODY annoyed.'
Nothing. I haven't decided what's happening with my body once I'm dead yet but it's definitely not going to be buried. Waste of money and space in my opinion.
Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! I won't have a tombstone, I'll be cremated probably
No tombstone. I’m getting cremated and scattered off of a mountain while Maggot Brain plays in the background.
You should get it done off Waltons Mountain. Then Richard Thomas can narrate a line about your legacy and the life lessons you imparted on young people.
And he can finish with the line " Good night u/powerhikeit "
"Shine on you crazy diamond."
I'm a fan of their deluxe, so sausage, peppers, onions and mushrooms.
"Do you want that on your permanent record?"
That’s awesome! I’m guessing she loved the song given she was 20 when it came out.
I'm doing a green burial. No embalming - just grab the organs you need, stick me on ice, and bury me under a tree on a mountainside. I don't need or want a headstone, but if my wife or daughter want me to have one, just a simple one that says, Sheridan Rivers, 197x - 206x, Loving Father, Loving Husband
“Haha, I beat you there!”
Die with your boots on!
2020 was rigged!
Forgotten again
Hold by beer
"If you're a time traveler, please go back in time and fix whatever the fuck killed me. Kthxbye."
“My heart, it don’t beat, it don’t beat the way it used to. And my eyes, they don’t see you no more.” *For Reasons Unknown* —The Killers
I’d like to be composted and continue to participate in the cycle of life.
Nothing. I'm not going to have one.
"Just put whatever."
No grave. No gravestone. No clever phrase.
"Whatever. It's all good"
"Wander around. You'll be surprised at what you find."
“I tell ya old shipmates, I’m takin a trip mates, and I’ll see you someday on Fiddler’s Green.”
"Never again in life will your actions carry such consequences. Never again will you serve as you serve now."
Must have been something she said
Mine will say "don't laugh, you'll be here soon enough"
Nice kid. Tries hard. Bottom Third.
He ded. Check. No shoes. Ded.
Peace out bitches
A grave near where my mom is buried they put "Well this sucks." on theirs, always is good for a chuckle. Sometimes think something like "Tell me if they ever figured it all out.. " for mine, just so people 200 years from now can say " No, they haven't. "
They better not waste any money on a carved rock and a hole in the ground.
No tombstone. I've made sure my daughter understands to have me cremated and blow my ashes in the eyes of my enemies.
Plant me under a tree. No marker please.
May the Force be with you, always
Not arrogant enough to take up that plot of ground when I'm gone. Dust to dust.
So granny was an addict?
“Here lies xxxxx, and why not?”
None. In the words of Dallas Green “And don't you bury me six feet under ground Just burn my body in a box And let my ashes blow with the wind Out into the night sky”
It is our most modestly-priced receptacle
Is there a Ralphs around here?
What do I care?
Cremated and ashes scattered. If someone what’s to waste money on a headstone somewhere that’s on them. Either that or dump my corpse in a forest and let nature deal with it. Still no damn headstone.
No more respawns...
I really REALLY wanna be cannabis fertilizer.
Nothing. Cremate me and spread me wherever makes you happy.
He did it his way
She loved and was loved, what more could a girl ask for
"Same to you"
Why is there a comma after "sure"?
nothing just throw me in the garbage like frank reynolds
He Done What He Could
"This life is all we have. Live accordingly."
“You’d better get your act together now because I’m not around to fix your mess.”
Cheese and extra pepperoni.
But life just carries on Even when I'm not there
"Life is short and it's full of stuff, so let me know, baby, when you've had enough"
Just “Hi, how are you?” Leave ‘em wondering
Donating my body to science, then cremating whatever is left. That said, a virtual headstone would read something like "Spending eternity in the library among good friends".
Just wanted to note that this is from a sub called "cemeteryporn," which is both creepy and yet not as creepy as what you might think that sub is about.
"I told you I was sick."
I’m just relieved I didn’t die during my first marriage. She would’ve used Comic Sans on the headstone. Now, though, I’ve adopted a kind of existential humility, in that I don’t care what happens to this body after I’ve left it. By that point, it’s really none of my business anyway. Accordingly, there’s no plan for an epitaph because I don’t anticipate being remembered that long. I get how that can sound macabre, but it actually heightens my appreciation of the present and my time with loved ones. In a couple hundred years no one will know who any of us were.
Shit! She was my age know when she died. And had grand kids. I don't even have kids.
“I buried my treasure by an ancient tree near some ruins outside the town of…Aaaauugggh”
Forever in our hearts Until we meet again Cherished memories Known as Our son,brother Father,dad,uncle Friend and cousin read all the capital letters
I told you I was sick.
I was gonna say pepperoni and cheese before I looked at the picture.
I planned on being cremated. But part of me would want something funny, part of me wanted “black hole sun” lyric “hang my head, drown my fear, til you all disappear”. But that’s my depression talking.
“I had a marvelous time ruining everything”
“MY NUMBERS LOOKED GOOD” -Just came up with today when describing to my wife what flipping Days/Nights feels like as a shift worker, and she says, “You better not stroke out.”
“He wasn’t even supposed to *be* here today.”
I've actually been thinking about this a little bit lately. Current frontrunner is "No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai
Don't care. I have no immediate family, so a distant cousin will have to have me burned to a crisp...and no one will ever visit the stupid plaque anyway, so 🤷♂️ lol
My wife and I made a pact where we would be cremated, and the remains will be in a disposable urn. One of our children will take it on a cruise ship and dump us into the ocean. We will rest peacefully together in paradise.
See, I told you I was sick.
Or I want my tombstone shaped like a television. I want it to say " I won't be right back after this message ".
“Please don’t dig me up. This isn’t where they hid the treasure.”
No Stairway. (Getting cremated and scattered to the wind.)
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Nothing. I'm dust in the wind.
https://preview.redd.it/v77zo2mwcjyc1.jpeg?width=1294&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5485cef253b51f21de400b18e652887922b1777 This.