What would be your chosen Epitaph?

[tikay]

en route to Brighton last weekend, Red & I babbled away, subjects ranged from Tractors to bridges, trees, health, animals, wheel nuts on lorries (fascinating one that), his home (which I had the pleasure of visiting for the first time - he lives in Paradise), & how big Chili's bum looked in those jeans.

Anyway, he asked me a purler. "What would you like your epitaph to read?".

I'm still puzzling over that one. I came up with a handful of possibles for myself, but am still undecided.

What would you like YOUR epitaph to say?

And what epitaph would you propose for selected others?

[matt674]

thats something i'm leaving for my next of kin to decide (should i actually have one at the time!)

[TightEnd]

"He knew everything except anything that was important" (Me)


for a n other

" He was always 39 years old until the day he stopped being so"

[bolt pp]

No disrespect or Anything but i couldn't care less, once I'm gone I'm gone and the people of my lifetime will remember me how they chose.

I know how my family and Friends will view me but if i dont do anything that gains me significant recognition then why should i care what people that dont know me think 100 years down the line.

I dont know what my great great granddad done with hes life or if he was a good man and i wouldn't presume to believe that he was from reading a few words about him unless the memory of him was past down through my family, thats what i thinks important.

I feel embarrassed whenever i read an epitaph and feel that the casual way in which i gaze upon a few words that are supposed to serve as a memory of someones life actually belittles the memory of that person.

[Robert HM]

"he meant well"

[AndrewT]

Here lies Tony Kendall
He thinks he's still alive
Another misread

[boldie]

Here lies an Atheist.
All dressed up and no place to go.

[boldie]

Here lies an Atheist.
All dressed up and no place to go.

on a more serious note I like this one;

'To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

[Tonji]

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

[Rod Paradise]

Ashes scattered on a hillside and a Rowan tree planted. That's do me nicely.

[Swordpoker]

Press here for zombie action

[Rod Paradise]

On a headstone in Montreal:

           John
Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are

A bit contrived, until you read it again......

Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are

Mr John Laird McCaffery gets a message for prosterity from his wife and his mistress. 

[yt]

I've always fancied building a pryamid. You know as big as one of the great pyramids in egypt.
It would be cool to leave something that significant behind. Like stonehenge maybe.
I might need to become a millionaire first though.

And it would say "Steve White Woz Ere" in honour of my Essex roots.

 

[ericstoner]

I'd like to be buried under a horse chestnut tree..........Then my epitaph could read.

I came I saw I conquered.

[thetank]

Yo Adrian.....that's a boys name hun.