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Thread: Heaven: What I want on my tombstone
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Organ Builder
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A nice one set to music by Jonathan Battishill in the late 18th century:
Here on his back doth lay Sir Andrew Keeling;
And at his feet his mournful lady kneeling.
But when he was alive and had his feeling,
She laid upon her back and he was kneeling.
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mousethief
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They told me "today is the first day of the rest of your life." It wasn't.
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Pooks
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I am prideful to the end. This will do nicely for me:
She's not a complete idiot - some parts are missing.
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lapsed heathen
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Originally posted by joris2:
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Originally posted by lapsed heathen:
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And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Aways liked this lyric as an epitaph.
It may be advisable to ask Leonard Cohen for his permission.
I think it would count as fair use and not be subject to copyright, after all I'm not going to be reproducing copies of my headstone in miniature for sale as souvenirs. On the other hand it would offset the funeral costs.
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"We are the Easter people and our song is Alleluia"
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Jigsaw
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My brother is a stonemason and delighted to hear that people are planning such lengthy epitaphs. He asks that you all arrange to die in the Wolverhampton area, but he stops short of asking that you could do it within the next 20 years - i.e. the time he has left to work before hanging up his chisel.
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Ariston
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Personally, I'd like onions and sausage on my Tombstone.
Oh, not that kind of Tombstone?
Hm . . . something in Latin, making a nice allusions . . .
How about the last like of Question 90, Article 4 of the Prima Secundae?
"Et sic ex quatuor praedictis potest colligi definitio legis, quae nihil est aliud quam quaedam rationis ordinatio ad bonum commune, ab eo qui curam communitatis habet, promulgata."
Heck, I'll probably still be able to recite it even after it's carved on that chunk of rock above my head. Oh The Joy of being a grad student studying late medieval legal theory . . .
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Ariston
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Whoops.
Part of the reason I didn't translate is that it sounds a lot more like something to put on a tombstone in Latin than in English.
"Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated."
Granted, that's not how I would render the above, but It's too early in the morning for Latin translation and what I've more-or-less memorized sometimes leaves out parts of the beginning.
I suppose one could make an argument that death is a universal law for all men, or some other mystical such-and-such like that, but really, I'd be putting this passage on my grave as a bit of a joke.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Aggie
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Perhaps: Ding dong! The wicked witch is dead. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I remember the story about the late comedian Bob Hope; that when he was on his death-bed, his family asked him where he wanted to be buried, and he quipped: "I don't know. Surprise me!"
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“I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.”
(Joseph Mary Plunkett 1887-1917)
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Twilight
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Originally posted by ErinBear:
In fact, I have a photo of it on my refrigerator...may sound strange but I find it a comfort. I'll take that, please.
Blessings,
ErinBear
I read this too fast and thought you had a photo of your refrigerator and found it comforting. I totally understood.
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angelfish
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I have for some time thought that "Thou art the journey and the journey's end" would be a nice epitaph.
Mind you, we may not get our wishes. Some cemetaries in the UK provide a list of acceptable and bland epitaphs, and no deviations or improvisations are permitted. Ditto tombstone design these days - they all have to be of uniform dimensions (makes it easier to stack them up at the side when the next lot of stiffs move in 60 years after your demise). My grandmother-in-law found this out when her husband died a few years ago. She was so disappointed, she decided not to have a headstone at all, and has planted a beautiful garden shrubbery over him instead.
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El Greco
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Originally posted by Ariel:
"If you can read this you are standing on my grave."
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) Absolutely brilliant!
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Originally posted by daviddrinkell:
I rather liked:
Here lie I, Martin Elginbrod,
Hae Maircy on my soule, Lorde Gode,
As I wad dae, were I Lorde Gode
And ye were Martin Elginbrod.
Good one!
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Originally posted by Campbellite:
W.C.Fields hated his home town of Philadelphia. At his request, his tombstone in California says.
"All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
Ha ha ha. Who wouldn't?
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El Greco
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I love a saying by the ancient Ionian philosopher Heraclitus:
αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη.
which can be translated as: Time is a child at play, moving pieces in a board game; the kingly power is a child's.
A child's kingdom... Not a bad understanding of the Universe...
Perhaps I'd change a bit the ancient text, but that's the gist of what I have in mind.
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Ξέρω εγώ κάτι που μπορούσε, Καίσαρ, να σας σώσει.
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