6/11/2003: Tombstone art

Hat tip to avi of Worth1000 for passing this along. It's from a site called The Tombstone Traveller's Guide. This particular one's in Switzerland, and the interesting thing about it is that the artist carved it himself in anticipation of his death. There isn't much more info except that the artist's name was "G. Pepe".

Rage, rage against the dying of the light: this is nearly the exact opposite of yesterday's image.

dude i'm gonna do that type of thing for my tomb stone! only it will be sculpture of me tying to claw my way up out of the ground, or drowning in the earth. Some thing like this sculpture in East Potomac Park (Wash DC) its called <a href="http://www.skatedc.org/resources/skatespots/eastpotomac.html">Awakening</a>



the anticipation of death should be something that every one should have thought about before hitting that mid-life crisis.

I'm gonna live forever.
So far so good.:p

I love that poem -- at least these two lines:

"Do not go gentle into that dark night
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light"

Paranoid, Your familiarity with me must be miss placed?

Let me introduce myself I’m a no bull shit Christian, that chooses not to fool myself into thinking that my physical body is a permanent one. Every thing in this life is temporal, AKA you can't take it with you when you Die. In light of that I Choose to put my faith in Christ as God's son, that he died on the cross for my sins, and then rose victorious over death three days later. I have no fear of death because the only part of me that is really living was taken care of by Christ.
You seem to have confused my callous regard for Death, with looking forward of it. I miss typed earlie, but In one sense I do anticipate Death because in that event I will be living forever in heaven praising God. Death is something no one can expect it can come at any moment, I am just glad that I am prepared for it that is all..
When i said Anticipation earlier i was referting to preparedness, not necessarily laying in wait twiddleing my thumbs.
Kind of in the same way that we antisipate and are warned against a terrorist attack.

tombs

I'm with Bruce, I'm gonna live forever.

Yes Bruce, I've seen the future and you will live for ever.
You too Leah

And so will our children.:p

Leah and Bruce are going to be living forever? What a cute couple!

I thought that most Christians regarded their bodies as temporal and their spirits as beings that would keep on going?

I agree that everyone ought to consider their death before it is coming up on them and stomping on their bones. There's a lot to learn from one's reflections on the matter.

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Originally posted by paranoid Why? I personally prefer the anticipation of eternal life. Too bad that it will happen without you. Why any person living in 21st century would think of his death with anticipation is beyond me... [/b]