Our eternal family looks so beautiful from cyberspace...
Saturday, July 02, 2005
A New Post Because We Need One
What do you want on your tombstone? (Not the pepperoni variety...you know what I mean.) And here is a picture of Spencer because he looks so handsome and mature and dignified and rich and...
Successful! He looks successful. I may want something very dramatic on my tombstone that will make people cry when they walk past it in a cemetery--after all, why else are they walking around looking at random tombstones? It's because they want to be moved, even shocked. I say, give the people what they want--a little entertainment!
I have a friend who had a son die at the age of 12 or 14 of a brain tumor. They took 4 years to get him a headstone because a) I think it was really painful for them and b) because they wanted to buy a REALLY nice one...engraved on the stone it says "He died of a brain tumor." This friend reasoned that when people see a the headstone of a really young person they always want to know why, and he was just satisfying their curiosity...
I just want "R.I.P." because NO ONE does that anymore and I want to bring back the fad... or maybe "danke shoen" to go with my funeral coffin-exiting-the-room song...
I once heard of an epitaph that read, "I told them I was sick!" That's pretty good, but I would like to have one of those old fashioned New England-looking angel heads with wings on either side at the top and under my name and the years of birth and death the words, "She was grateful." That will do.
Mo, that will be lovely. Consider it done. As for you other 2 nut jobs... we are using this blog as proof that is what you really asked for.
I just hope I die in a year that is easy to calculate how old I was when it happened. 'Cause a lot of math of that sort goes on when people walk past your random headstone. Or you could just put, "She was ___ when she died" and save everyone the brain power. If there is one thing I don't want it's for math strain to be my lasting legacy and contribution.
I couldn't agree with Suzie Petunia more. Just give people what they want...
"Her name was Amy. She died when she was ___ years old from eating too many mint Oreos. Sometimes she was nice but she could also be a jerk. Read her blog at..." That kind of stuff.
My favorite is too see people exercising in our little cemetary here. I just think it would be so motivating.
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Successful! He looks successful.
I may want something very dramatic on my tombstone that will make people cry when they walk past it in a cemetery--after all, why else are they walking around looking at random tombstones? It's because they want to be moved, even shocked. I say, give the people what they want--a little entertainment!
I have a friend who had a son die at the age of 12 or 14 of a brain tumor. They took 4 years to get him a headstone because a) I think it was really painful for them and b) because they wanted to buy a REALLY nice one...engraved on the stone it says "He died of a brain tumor." This friend reasoned that when people see a the headstone of a really young person they always want to know why, and he was just satisfying their curiosity...
I just want "R.I.P." because NO ONE does that anymore and I want to bring back the fad... or maybe "danke shoen" to go with my funeral coffin-exiting-the-room song...
I once heard of an epitaph that read, "I told them I was sick!" That's pretty good, but I would like to have one of those old fashioned New England-looking angel heads with wings on either side at the top and under my name and the years of birth and death the words, "She was grateful." That will do.
Mo, that will be lovely. Consider it done. As for you other 2 nut jobs... we are using this blog as proof that is what you really asked for.
I just hope I die in a year that is easy to calculate how old I was when it happened. 'Cause a lot of math of that sort goes on when people walk past your random headstone. Or you could just put, "She was ___ when she died" and save everyone the brain power. If there is one thing I don't want it's for math strain to be my lasting legacy and contribution.
I couldn't agree with Suzie Petunia more. Just give people what they want...
"Her name was Amy. She died when she was ___ years old from eating too many mint Oreos. Sometimes she was nice but she could also be a jerk.
Read her blog at..."
That kind of stuff.
My favorite is too see people exercising in our little cemetary here. I just think it would be so motivating.
Oh, my gosh...Amy you are a GENIOUS! Iam TOTALLY putting a website on by tombstone...
there are mint oreos?.....
Chris says you could put a really complicated math problem on it just to drive people crazy.
Spencer...welcome back to the "real" United States.
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