"Death is only the beginning. Life is just the preparation, as you read this I will be watching over you."

I would totally pose for a pic on the couch headstone!

I saw a headstone years ago with a Kahlil Gibran poem:

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.



Beautiful sentiment.

"And so as I lay here the world unchanged, I dream of the day when we all follow Allah"

I found this on an Iraqi grave. Had a Terp translate it. I thought I'd share

That was a great poem for a tombstone, and i found the second link to be halarious. I wonder what provoked that particular momument...

and i loved the couch with the book as well, it was...well to die for. I think it was my favorite. I also liked the tree done for the Architect. the rope looked amazing to me.

I have not given it any thought, if I'm honest.

I'd like something more ecological, and rather than a tombstone I'd quite like a tree of some sort with a small plaque near it. I love Carpy's idea... and I love the story behind the cherry blossom

I guess it will be whatever those I leave behind can afford... I doubt I'll care.

If I had to have a tombstone I'd just like a simple one, name, important dates, the usual "beloved daughter/friend", and a peace sign if there was money enough to get it done. What can I say... I'm a hippy at heart

I will take the easy way out and say nothing since I have every intention of being cremated. I don't see the point of being buried other than to give my family and friends a place to visit, in which case I would like to have my ashes spread in a lake or on a mountain where they could still visit without need of a monument.


~spidey

My mom wants her burial to be like that for that very reason, Spidey. She says that funerals (and flowers) are for the living.

And thanks, Minty. No need in causing more damage to the Earth after I'm dead, especially since you're suppose to go back to the Earth in death, so embalming is pretty demeaning in my opinion.

Of course, if I do have a tombstone, it has to have a funny anecdote that tells the story of my life, like, "here lies the bones of Carpy, who popped one too many jalepeno popplers to her grave."

I think that I wouldn't mind a large funeral. I've always been a bit more fond of big celebrations, so I would enjoy knowing that I got a farewell similar to a Victorian funeral procession. They would have carriages and horses, and it was almost parade-like when they took the deceased to the grave. I would love the whole elaborate mess.

I would love for my tombstone to be a carved statue of myself, sitting, in the gown I was buried in. The inscription would give a simple description with the dates.

The fantasy coffins are amazing!!!

1. Flat rectangle with a winged skull and ivy border
2. Make it look like a pizza to see if anybody'd get it.
3. Buried under a tree, maybe, in my favorite hoodie and fuzzy socks. It'd be nice to be buried in late fall, cause there's no leaves left and the sky's all cloudy and you can hear the wind in the bare branches....but the ground would start freezing.

I haven't yet decided what my own tombstone will someday say, but if I had a surname like this guy's (I took this picture in Brooklyn's Holy Cross Cemetery), I wouldn't desire much else on my tombstone. For neatness and succinctness, I give you:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235 ... 0_1906.jpg

-- Nephele

[editor mode]Is that the imperative form of the verb? [/editor mode]

Yes, indeedy. It's the graveyard equivalent of "Smile!"

Sure makes my day a bit brighter, looking at that picture.

-- Nephele

This is, admittedly, almost the ultimate. But what if he/she'd had "(Nevermore)" engraved in smaller letters underneath?

Just a thought...

heheh, that tombstone made me happy...

Anyways - I'll get nothing that exciting

"When I go from this life, let me go in peace
Don’t want your marble at my head and feet
Don’t gather round me oh just to weep and moan
Where that I’m going I won’t be alone

The flowers you give, please give them today
Don’t waste their beauty on cold lifeless clay
One rose with love could do so much good
And I think all would give it if they just understood

Now God gives life freely, then he takes away
What we do for eachother let us do it today
For we have no promise that tomorrow will come
Don’t sing my praises lord after I’m gone

When life has departed it’s not me any more
Just a form that has suffered, A still heart that was sore
For the soul that has blossomed, it don’t need you anymore
So let it freely to God’s evermore"

great song, basically my view of death - its going to happen eventually, so I wish that people would start worrying about what's happening to me now...because afterwards, I want to be cremated and forgotten, my mark will be made while I'm alive, not on the tombstone my family creates for me when I don't exist anymore.