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Tombstones
federica
Seeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
as a wildly off-topic spin-off from @genkaku's thread here, I thought this might amuse:
This was a poem given to a widow by her husband's colleagues. She thought it so touching and thoughtful, she had it engraved on his headstone.
It wasn't until the headstone had been up a while, that the cemetery Groundsman noticed the Acrostic........
We mourn the loss of a good friend
And miss him through and through
Never was there one like him
Know this to be true:
Eric is with God above
Remembered here by us with Love.
This is another, more famous Acrostic tombstone....
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o72/cohenpeart/fu-1.jpg
Any other tombstones or signs hit the funny-bone?
Just bantering....
This was a poem given to a widow by her husband's colleagues. She thought it so touching and thoughtful, she had it engraved on his headstone.
It wasn't until the headstone had been up a while, that the cemetery Groundsman noticed the Acrostic........
We mourn the loss of a good friend
And miss him through and through
Never was there one like him
Know this to be true:
Eric is with God above
Remembered here by us with Love.
This is another, more famous Acrostic tombstone....
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o72/cohenpeart/fu-1.jpg
Any other tombstones or signs hit the funny-bone?
Just bantering....
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As far as signs go, there were some brilliant ones in the toilets at Waterloo station, above every urinal a circular sign saying "stop cock"!
They have since changed the signs to something like 'Emergency water shut-off"...
Although it has been reproduced, apparently the original DOES exist. My example certainly does....
Although it has been reproduced, apparently the original DOES exist. My example certainly does....
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
- Mary Elizabeth Frye
My living will since the age of 31 has
been....no service, just a party! But i
do want some witty words out there !!
Kind of like the wedding I couldn't afford...haha
Eat, drink, and be merry !!!
Cremate me. I told my two daughters
they can take the ashes and make some nice
jewelry with it..have you seen that? hahaha
Or the family can do the movie scene and spread
them some place that the fish will eat me.
I hate going to the family gatherings at the
grave sights.
Econo Cremation/ green burial /sky funeral or chipper..What ever is easiest for my partner to deal with. No service needed.
A gathering of friends, 3 weeks later for meditation, some nibbles, a toast and hopefully some laughs.
but
air
earth
fire
water
and
sound
sight
feeling
there is Nothing to be sad for
see the Dhamma between the lines
This is one of my favourite poems: it was written by Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, A child's Book of Verses) and is engraved on his tombstone, on the island of Samoa.
Stevenson was loved by the Samoans, and his tombstone epigraph was translated to a Samoan song of grief which is well-known and still sung in Samoa.
"Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave, and let me lie:
Glad did I live, and Gladly die,
And I lay me down with a will.
This be the verse you 'grave for me:
'Here he lies, where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter, home from the hill.' "
It still brings a lump to my throat even now.
Now I lay me down to sleep
A sack of peanuts at my feet
If I should die before I wake
You know I died with a belly ache
Not nice!!
also I always wanted to go out on a big funeral pyre like the romans/vikings/indians.
I complied but was surprised when her ashes were returned to us from the Canadian funeral home with a thank you note from a USA located crematorium. A big surprise for us.
Who would of thought that it was cheaper to transport a body across an international border to another country and back for a cremation, than to do it down the street.
Just a reminder to ask more questions than I thought to do.
all dressed up,
and no place to go.
hahahaha
here are some tombstone ideas...
Funny sayings.
Just in case you make any.
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/hauntedhouse/a/CreativeEpitaphs.htm
of all the burdens, all the cares...
and now this gigantic stone!"