What do you want on your tombstone?

[Gypsy]

Gecko, I've alwasys thought the viking way was best (except for the whole ocean polution thing, I guess) too.

I watched my grandfather's casket lowered into the ground almost one year to this day last year. And I swore then and there it was cremation for me. I have had nightmares about being buried since then.

I'd like my ashes buried underneath a newly planted tree somewhere children go with a plaque in front with my name on it and an few words. I'd like my husband to be next to me, either under the same tree, or under his own tree.

 

[KimberlyH]

I'd like either a green burial and to be fertilizer under a tree. Or, if I'm being really self-centered, turned into some diamonds that friends could wear to interesting places.

I also hope my family honors my wish to be an organ donor. Its a self centered desire...kinda like giving death a brief middle finger.

No headstones, please, those rocks could make much more beautiful and useful things...

Reader, one of my oldest and dearest friends is alive because of her donor's heart. Nothing selfish about it. Thank you for wanting to help someone else.

 

[princesss]

"Hey, where'd she go?"

 

[reader]

I'd like either a green burial and to be fertilizer under a tree. Or, if I'm being really self-centered, turned into some diamonds that friends could wear to interesting places.

I also hope my family honors my wish to be an organ donor. Its a self centered desire...kinda like giving death a brief middle finger.

No headstones, please, those rocks could make much more beautiful and useful things...

Yup, I want to be made into a diamond, maybe into 3 so that I can give a little of my self to each of my 2 kids, and also sit on the finger of my husband's next wife

ROFL! I like your style!

FWIW, I asked John that if something happened to me, to take my marquise ring, and to give it to the woman who would love him the most. He decided that if I pass on, his mom would get the ring.

 

[gemgirl]

I'd like mine to read "she always tried as hard as she could", but because I'll be buried with my parents and we own a plot in a Catholic cemetary, and it was requested that we have the engravers put Bible verse on our tombstones, my actual tombstone (which I chose for my Dad) is rose granite and reads "Love is Forever".

 

[davi_el_mejor]

I want to be cremated. I want the urn to be the shape of a degu.

 

[dragonfly411]

You should do two conjoined degus like that and then they will be little guardians.

 

[davi_el_mejor]

You should do two conjoined degus like that and then they will be little guardians.

I was also thinking that it'd be awesome to have them motorized with a controller. Like a zhu zhu pet but way more creepy

 

[Circe]

An addition to mine: for years, I've been trying to convince my loved ones that when I pass, I want my skull to be made into a gold-lined mug, a la the Scythians. Maybe some nice sapphires in the sockets, for memory's sake. That way, I could continue to preside at festive gatherings for years to come! Alas, so far no one has committed to following through on this. I figure another 40 years or so of nagging might do it ....

ETA: Look, it's traditional! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_cup

 

[Circe]

You should do two conjoined degus like that and then they will be little guardians.

I was also thinking that it'd be awesome to have them motorized with a controller. Like a zhu zhu pet but way more creepy

This may be the best thing I've ever heard. It's bad enough when people's Pokemon toys randomly start babbling in tongues - if it were a mobile rodent avatar of the dead? Awesome.

 

[charbie]

We had to come up with an epitaph for an application I. Did. I love to tell stories (not everyone likes to listen) and talk a lot. When a story starts going nowhere and I lose focus, I always finish with "and then I found $5!". So I said my epitaph would be "we all wish the greatest stories never ended....and then I found $5."

 

[dragonfly411]

You should do two conjoined degus like that and then they will be little guardians.

I was also thinking that it'd be awesome to have them motorized with a controller. Like a zhu zhu pet but way more creepy

This may be the best thing I've ever heard. It's bad enough when people's Pokemon toys randomly start babbling in tongues - if it were a mobile rodent avatar of the dead? Awesome.

Agreed.

 

[somethingshiny]

Oh I love the motorized urn. Think of what you could do to the ones you left behind! Of course you'd have to have someone on your side who was still alive. heading down the street when that person comes across a neighbor, "what are you doing?!?!" and as you remote turn the urn to face the person "Just taking davi for a walk!"

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Given that this is PS, I'm surprised nobody wanted to make their ashes into a diamond! (they offer that these days)

I plan on donating what organs I can to science. And if they can't take anything useful, then I donate my body to medical schools for educational purposes in whatever way they see fit.

And when that's all said and done, cremation! And then I want to be kept in a very unassuming household appliance, like a travel coffee mug, and be set somewhere with a good view and where nobody will try to drink me.

 

[jaysonsmom]

Given that this is PS, I'm surprised nobody wanted to make their ashes into a diamond! (they offer that these days)

I plan on donating what organs I can to science. And if they can't take anything useful, then I donate my body to medical schools for educational purposes in whatever way they see fit.

And when that's all said and done, cremation! And then I want to be kept in a very unassuming household appliance, like a travel coffee mug, and be set somewhere with a good view and where nobody will try to drink me.

Both reader and I said that we would want to be made into diamonds. I guess you didn't read everyone's responses?

 

[Lynnie]

MTG - I have a similar plan. Donation of organs, then cremation. I told my husband to put a little of me into a Christmas ornament and hang me on the tree every year!

I also thought it'd be cool to have an artist incorperate my ashes into a family protrait (done in charcoal), and I could be hung on the wall. I don't know if an artist'd be willing, though. It IS kinda morbid!