Your Gravestone Description

[PeterRS]

Just a thought. Since I do quite a lot of research, this has meant looking at photos of gravestones to double check dates of birth and death. I remember my father telling me of once seeing a gravestone with the comment after the lady's name "Lord, she was Thin." Thinking this odd, he looked further round and noticed that the stonemason had run out of space for one letter was on the side. He had tried and failed to fit in "Lord, she was Thine."

I plan to be cremated and will probably just try to have my name and dates added to my parents' gravestone. Not that I particularly want that, but perhaps some future generations will seek out the family history. But I do not want any description. If I did, it would probably be something innocuous like "He Did His Best" which of course covers a multitude of good deeds as well as an even greater multitude of sins.

If you wish to have a gravestone and have a maximum of six words, I wonder what you would write. I'm particularly interested in @Olddaddy's thoughts LOL

[vinapu]

He lives as long as God remembers him.( In my native language is 6 words only)

[NIrishGuy]

"i told you i was sick!"    

Or 

"OUCH !! You're standing on my balls !"

🙂

 

 

[Suckrates]

Mine is pretty common....   "I proudly did it my way",  as a dig to my family who always made my Gayness "an issue" in the family....

[Keithambrose]

1 hour ago, NIrishGuy said:

I told you i was sick!"   

Close to Spike Milligan, "I told you I was ill."

 

I gather W C Fields  did not have a tombstone, thus the frequent suggestion that it said, "on the whole I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia", is apocryphal.  Shame!

[jimmie50]

Mine would be very simple.  I want a rainbow flag with the words 'unapologetically unique'.   

[Riobard]

Triple entendre:

[unicorn]

6 hours ago, NIrishGuy said:

"i told you i was sick!"    

Or 

"OUCH !! You're standing on my balls !"

🙂

The former is a fairly common one--the first time I encountered one was on one of those tours of Key West:

There are others:

[unicorn]

[unicorn]

[unicorn]

 

 

[floridarob]

On 11/30/2025 at 7:57 PM, NIrishGuy said:

"OUCH !! You're standing on my balls !"

You got the Irish curse?



I just posted on my social media the other day that my tombstone will read " it was the eggs benedict"


 

[NIrishGuy]

6 hours ago, floridarob said:

You got the Irish curse?

The Irish curse ??  Well if by that you mean devilishly handsome with chiselled good looks and the body of an athlete than yes I suppose I must !  lol   

Ha If ONLY  

 

 

[floridarob]

16 hours ago, NIrishGuy said:

The Irish curse ?? 

The Irish Curse allegedly predominantly strikes Irish men and involves a disproportionate dick-to-balls ratio ... Small Penis, But Huge Balls ...

[Patanawet]

On 11/30/2025 at 8:51 PM, Keithambrose said:

Close to Spike Milligan, "I told you I was ill.

Yes but wasn't it forbidden to have that in an Irish graveyard, so he(?) had it translated into Irish?

[Keithambrose]

4 hours ago, Patanawet said:

Yes but wasn't it forbidden to have that in an Irish graveyard, so he(?) had it translated into Irish?

Yes, indeed! 

[10tazione]

My gravestone will say "He couldn't afford a gravestone".

[vinapu]

6 hours ago, 10tazione said:

My gravestone will say "He couldn't afford a gravestone".

you should add " all money  spent in Thailand on stamp  collection"