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Kevin Milkins
01-Apr-08, 13:15
I have always enjoyed looking around old churchyards and reading grave stones.
My favourite was on a stone in Claverly that was dated about 1860 that read.
Friend stand here and cast an eye
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me
I am sure that has brought a smile to many faces for 150 years. Has anyone else a favourite?
"Told you it was serious!"
"nothing to see here, move along thank you "
Amy-Winehouse
01-Apr-08, 13:53
Thats a rather odd question mate!!!
Im not dead yet so I couldnt say what is on my gravestone-hope it is something witty & amusing when I do pop my clogs but It isnt something I have top care about for many years
Don't be sad, i'll see you in no time.
Stranger tread
This ground with gravity.
Dentist Brown
Is filling his last cavity.
Kevin Milkins
01-Apr-08, 14:14
Thats a rather odd question mate!!!
Im not dead yet so I couldnt say what is on my gravestone-hope it is something witty & amusing when I do pop my clogs but It isnt something I have top care about for many years
It was not meant as perhaps it sounded, It was meant to sound a bit like the credit card advert. ( whats in your wallet) Or possibly I am a bit morbid.lol
Mine says...peace is yours-memories ours......
Nothing.Not having a grave stone. being cremated..but my plaque will say loving mum wife and friend......
ciderally
01-Apr-08, 14:23
here is a couple..
Here lies the body of poor Aunt Charlotte.
Born a virgin, died a harlot.
For 16 years she kept her virginity
A damn'd long time for this vicinity.
Death Valley, California
Reader pass on and ne'er waste your time
On bad biography and bitter rhyme.
For what I am this cumb'rous clay insures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
here is a couple..
Here lies the body of poor Aunt Charlotte.
Born a virgin, died a harlot.
For 16 years she kept her virginity
A damn'd long time for this vicinity.
Death Valley, California
Reader pass on and ne'er waste your time
On bad biography and bitter rhyme.
For what I am this cumb'rous clay insures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
cant give you rep at this time so well done like them...
ciderally
01-Apr-08, 14:36
cheers justine....think i would like something funny on mine...maybe i will start thinking about it....might just use that first one tee hee
Kevin Milkins
01-Apr-08, 14:39
here is a couple..
Here lies the body of poor Aunt Charlotte.
Born a virgin, died a harlot.
For 16 years she kept her virginity
A damn'd long time for this vicinity.
Death Valley, California
Reader pass on and ne'er waste your time
On bad biography and bitter rhyme.
For what I am this cumb'rous clay insures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours
Thats great Very funny.
ciderally
01-Apr-08, 14:39
I have always enjoyed looking around old churchyards and reading grave stones.
My favourite was on a stone in Claverly that was dated about 1860 that read.
Friend stand here and cast an eye
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me
I am sure that has brought a smile to many faces for 150 years. Has anyone else a favourite?
To follow you
I am not content,
How do I know
Which way you went.
Perhaps mine could be:
This woman liked to write in rhyme
But she'll rhyme no more
For she's run out of time.
I would like mine to read:
'Had a great time, now I'm off to the next party'
percy toboggan
02-Apr-08, 20:21
82 years after my great-grandfather died, aged 82...I found his gravestone.
It read the usual name etc.... and...
'Thy Will Be Done'
Amen.
Mine: I don't want a gravestone for some local council official to declare unsafe in years to come...the wind at Morar can scatter me asunder....c.2035
I'll be all done with words by then.
I think mine would read
If you are standing reading this
Something is very much amiss
I said I wanted to buried at sea
And so you must be wet, like me
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To follow you
I am not content,
How do I know
Which way you went.
Love it.. That's for me!;)
82 years after my great-grandfather died, aged 82...I found his gravestone.
It read the usual name etc.... and...
'Thy Will Be Done'
Amen.
Mine: I don't want a gravestone for some local council official to declare unsafe in years to come...the wind at Morar can scatter me asunder....c.2035
I'll be all done with words by then.May ye spend an hour in heaven 'fore the devil knows your dead.;)
I had a very young Cousin who lost her battle with Cancer
she was 19
everytime you asked her how she was Im fine was the reply
she lost her battle
on her headstone I am Fine Now
At Last
Kevin Milkins
02-Apr-08, 23:41
We were having a tidy up in our local church yard and I had the task of cutting back the brambles in a paticuarly over grown area with a petrol brush cutter. After much sweat and tears I finaly came upon a head stone that said simply, "gone but not forgoton"
Friend stand here and cast an eye
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me
I am sure that has brought a smile to many faces for 150 years. Has anyone else a favourite?
hi kevin, 'iss is yer favourite??...
its scares me half'l dieth...:eek:
i wid choost go for ma signiture at 'e end o' ma posts i...
it wid sum it up kwite nicely i think ;)
Kevin Milkins
03-Apr-08, 00:19
hi kevin, 'iss is yer favourite??...
its scares me half'l dieth...:eek:
i wid choost go for ma signiture at 'e end o' ma posts i...
it wid sum it up kwite nicely i think ;)
hi Trix
Yes it was one that used to like, it was beside the path going into church so I suppose it was read by many over the years. It proberbly would make a good signiture
mine will say "buried alive" :eek:
"buried alive" :eek:
Leave him be. :lol:
My husbands great great grandmother stone is written "She hath done what she could". Hard lives back in the 1860s.
My parents stone is written "Takk for Alt" means thanks for everything.
Its going to be difficult for anything to be written on my tombstone, I want to be buried at sea [lol]
I think I'll go for "Unoccupied"
Mine would probably say something like.......Finally! [lol] x
Loch not Lock
03-Apr-08, 12:33
Please Dig Me Up,
I Was Only A Bit Tipsy!
ciderally
03-Apr-08, 13:20
I think mine would read
If you are standing reading this
Something is very much amiss
I said I wanted to buried at sea
And so you must be wet, like me
ah like this one:lol:
"Let me out - it's dark in here"
riggerboy
03-Apr-08, 15:38
how the blighty would i know am not dead yet, well i dont think i am, ouch nope still feel pain lol
Sapphire2803
03-Apr-08, 17:55
If my husband has anything to do with it, mine will probably say:
Quiet at last!
or
Finally... She shut up!
mr do dar
03-Apr-08, 18:34
mine would say .... if the graves a rockin dont come a knockin lol u know what i mean ;):Razz
Its going to be difficult for anything to be written on my tombstone, I want to be buried at sea [lol]
Golach, you could always have a note attached to you saying:
"Taking a final swim" or "This old salt's gone back sea forever". ;)
I think I'll go for "Unoccupied"
Or how about:
"Unfortunately, Saveman couldn't save himself, and neither could the doctor".
anneoctober
03-Apr-08, 19:35
My epitaph will read " I get knocked down, but I get up again......." :eek:
My daughter is unimpressed, but I DO want Chumbawumba belting this out at my last celebration...................[lol]
Sapphire2803
03-Apr-08, 19:35
mine would say .... if the graves a rockin dont come a knockin lol u know what i mean ;)
But.... Necrophilia's illegal :confused
anneoctober
03-Apr-08, 19:51
But.... Necrophilia's illegal :confused
HHmmmm - does that mean that Mr Do Dar requires written consent saphy? [lol]
My epitaph will read " I get knocked down, but I get up again......."
My daughter is unimpressed, but I DO want Chumbawumba belting this out at my last celebration...................[lol]
Sheer style Anne
Stay away from buses!:lol:
I read this somewhere lately but cant mind where :-
When I was younger, at weddings all my old relations used to poke me and say "you'll be next, it will be your turn soon"
They soon stopped it when I started doing it to them at funerals though [lol]
Thought it was kinda relevant to this thread, now I'll have a think about what I want on my headstone !!
bobandag16
03-Apr-08, 20:53
I have always enjoyed looking around old churchyards and reading grave stones.
My favourite was on a stone in Claverly that was dated about 1860 that read.
Friend stand here and cast an eye
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me
I am sure that has brought a smile to many faces for 150 years. Has anyone else a favourite?
wath would you like put on your head stone.
anneoctober
03-Apr-08, 21:01
wath would you like put on your head stone.
" Oi you ! this stone's heavy ".............:lol:
Kevin Milkins
03-Apr-08, 21:10
wath would you like put on your head stone.
A man who thinks to much about his ancestors is like a potato.
The best part of him is underground.
I would go with my signature and hope that it would give those who read it some hope :D
bobandag16
03-Apr-08, 22:18
I have always enjoyed looking around old churchyards and reading grave stones.
My favourite was on a stone in Claverly that was dated about 1860 that read.
Friend stand here and cast an eye
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me
I am sure that has brought a smile to many faces for 150 years. Has anyone else a favourite?
yes ask wath we would like to be put on
Kevin Milkins
03-Apr-08, 23:07
yes ask wath we would like to be put on
I think I got your drift the first time.
"Asleep with Angels" adorns my mum`s headstone.......Some people who knew her really well thought it should have been "Flying with the Angels"
Cinderella's Shoe
04-Apr-08, 20:31
I love Billy Connolly's one. He wants a small square on his grave stone with small writing in it - the idea being you have to walk on the grave to read it. The writing then says "you're standing on my balls"
My aunt's father had his headstone inscribed:
A TELT YA A WISNAE WELL!
Always makes me laugh when I think about it. He was a lovely man with such a sense of humour. He didn't want people crying over him when he went!! :lol:
Best before (the day i die)
Whitewater
06-Apr-08, 21:55
Mine will simply say 'RIP' ( Return if Possible)
Dog-eared
07-Apr-08, 00:15
" I'M STANDING BEHIND YOU..... " :lol:
or
The Meek shall inherit the Earth
The Brave shall get the Oceans
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