Epitaph..what is it going to say about you?

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  • salladeve
    salladeve Posts: 1,053 Member
    I'll be back!
  • karl39x
    karl39x Posts: 586 Member
    "I'll catch you on the flip side!"

    The Boondock Saints?
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    As I tell my family - I have no intention of dying. If death comes near me I'll rip his nipples off.

    But if I must go, I'll go with the Spike Milligan classic -

    "I told you I was ill."
  • I don't care what they say (I am what I am), but I want this song played.

    There are places I remember/ All my life though some have changed/ Some forever, not for better/ Some have gone and some remain

    All these places have their moments/ With lovers and friends I still can recall/ Some are dead and some are living/ In my life I've loved them all

    But of all these friends and lovers/ There is no one compares with you/ And these memories lose their meaning/ When I think of love as something new

    Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I'll often stop and think about them/ In my life I love you more

    Though I remember I’ll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I’ll often stop and think about them/ In my life I’ll love you more/ In my life I’ll love you more
  • CompressedCarbon
    CompressedCarbon Posts: 357 Member
    I don't care what they say (I am what I am), but I want this song played.

    There are places I remember/ All my life though some have changed/ Some forever, not for better/ Some have gone and some remain

    All these places have their moments/ With lovers and friends I still can recall/ Some are dead and some are living/ In my life I've loved them all

    But of all these friends and lovers/ There is no one compares with you/ And these memories lose their meaning/ When I think of love as something new

    Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I'll often stop and think about them/ In my life I love you more

    Though I remember I’ll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I’ll often stop and think about them/ In my life I’ll love you more/ In my life I’ll love you more

    That is lovely and on my death songlist as well.
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    I don't care what they say (I am what I am), but I want this song played.

    There are places I remember/ All my life though some have changed/ Some forever, not for better/ Some have gone and some remain

    All these places have their moments/ With lovers and friends I still can recall/ Some are dead and some are living/ In my life I've loved them all

    But of all these friends and lovers/ There is no one compares with you/ And these memories lose their meaning/ When I think of love as something new

    Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I'll often stop and think about them/ In my life I love you more

    Though I remember I’ll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I’ll often stop and think about them/ In my life I’ll love you more/ In my life I’ll love you more

    That is lovely and on my death songlist as well.

    death songlist? for your funeral??

    is that song by Deathcab For Cutie on it? that's the only song i can think of that's about death.
  • CompressedCarbon
    CompressedCarbon Posts: 357 Member

    death songlist? for your funeral??

    is that song by Deathcab For Cutie on it? that's the only song i can think of that's about death.

    What? You don't have a songlist? You probably haven't written a message from beyond for all your people either have you? My message, when I finally get around to writing it, is going to end with the phrase, "So it goes."T

    ETA: Thinking of adding Elton John's "The Bi otch is Back" to the list as well, just to make sure my kids know I'm still watching.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    I don't care what they say (I am what I am), but I want this song played.

    There are places I remember/ All my life though some have changed/ Some forever, not for better/ Some have gone and some remain

    All these places have their moments/ With lovers and friends I still can recall/ Some are dead and some are living/ In my life I've loved them all

    But of all these friends and lovers/ There is no one compares with you/ And these memories lose their meaning/ When I think of love as something new

    Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I'll often stop and think about them/ In my life I love you more

    Though I remember I’ll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I’ll often stop and think about them/ In my life I’ll love you more/ In my life I’ll love you more

    That is lovely and on my death songlist as well.

    death songlist? for your funeral??

    is that song by Deathcab For Cutie on it? that's the only song i can think of that's about death.
    BLASPHEMY! :angry:

    It's The Beatles
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Another one bites the dust...
  • stephc0711
    stephc0711 Posts: 1,022 Member
    I don't really have an epitaph, either, but I'd like Sixx A.M.'s "Life is Beautiful" played. Because everyone had better be standing around telling all my stupid, embarrassing stories and laughing!

    You can't quit until you try
    You can't live until you die
    You can't learn to tell the truth
    Until you learn to lie

    You can't breathe until you choke
    You gotta laugh when you're the joke
    There's nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive

    Just open your eyes
    Just open your eyes
    And see that life is beautiful.
    Will you swear on your life,
    That no one will cry at my funeral?
  • athenasurrenders
    athenasurrenders Posts: 278 Member
    I want 'Thus though we cannot make our sun/Stand still, yet we will make him run'

    My husband wants, 'I volunteer for any resurrection program you invent.'
  • ugottafriend
    ugottafriend Posts: 97 Member
    I'd like mine to have the cultural meaning of my names:

    "Brave Warrior; The People's Victory"


    Makes me sound like I kicked some serious *kitten*. Ha! I think it would start some conversations and perhaps intrigue people enough to do some research. I like research. I'm always trying to teach people something. :)
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Party hard before it's too late. :drinker:
  • ArellD
    ArellD Posts: 93
    I'll be back.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    "Man, that b!tch was tall"





    :laugh:

    I just went to check out your profile...so it is a good epitaph cos people want to check you out :laugh:

    Haha! I'm 6'1"

    /Slaps forehead now I know why I love you so much! All my closest friends are over 6 ft. I swear at the mall I look like their kid! One day I want them to each grab my hand and swing me like we do our children when they are 5 or 6, but I need to get them to lift first! Seems I am a bit stronger than them these days
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I try not to think about dying at all, but if when I do I want the money that would be spent on a stupid funeral, to be spent on a party, a vacation, a ski trip..........I will be cremated and ashes thrown into the ocean where I can feed the fish.

    I will not be there-it will not matter.

    I would love if everyone got up and danced at my funeral ( :laugh: I can think of a few that would right now!) Seriously! A good song played loudly and everyone must get up and dance.

    The most important thing it could say about me is

    "She loved. She encouraged all she met. She lived until she died. We cannot believe she was 101~~!!":drinker:
  • leadiax3
    leadiax3 Posts: 534 Member
    It will say whatever my daughter wants it to say. She will be the on left to read it.
  • "I love you Kylie, always and forever, be better than me"
  • OddballExtreme
    OddballExtreme Posts: 296 Member
    Mine would have this quote said by Dr. Jonathan Chase at the end of the Manimal pilot episode:

    "Don't think about that which you cannot do, but rather that which might become possible if you allow your imagination to run free."

    Underneath it would be, "Do this before it's too late."
  • FatHuMan1
    FatHuMan1 Posts: 1,028 Member
    "Wait here. I'll be right back."
  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    If you're reading this, you're standing on my boobs!
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    I want mine to say something really cryptic, so that my surviving friends and relatives spend their lives investigating my inevitably mysterious death.

    I'm thinking

    'When the green chicken dances among the willows, Hear the nostalgic trident and enter through the exploding gramophone'
  • "I told you I was ill."
  • MichelleLaree13
    MichelleLaree13 Posts: 865 Member
    "Wait here. I'll be right back."

    :laugh:
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I want mine to say something really cryptic, so that my surviving friends and relatives spend their lives investigating my inevitably mysterious death.

    I'm thinking

    'When the green chicken dances among the willows, Hear the nostalgic trident and enter through the exploding gramophone'

    I like that idea.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    when I used to play guitar in a rock band (many years ago) I wrote my own epitaph in the lyrics of one of our songs

    when I die lord, bury me deep
    and lay my guitar right at my feet
    so when that I do burn in hell
    I'll play those god-damned blues so well



    but I've kind of outgrown it. I want a palaeoanthropology themed one now.
  • Fittreelol
    Fittreelol Posts: 2,535 Member
    I'm going to the UT body farm. No epitaph for me.