I'm feeling pretty sick...

[Trilby]

...kinda achy, flu-type crap and it's got me to thinking: What do I want it to say on my Memorial Stone? (My body shall be cremated with the ashes flung to the four corners) So. Just a stone. No body underneath to possibly become zombie-fied or anything. What should it say? Decisions, decisions...maybe it should just have some sort of picture on it?

[SteveDallas]

Can you attach a binder with printouts of all your best Cellar posts?

Its your monument. Have anything you please. I'd go with something that makes a real fashion statement, personally. Tell your kids that you want a pyramid or the Sphinx constructed in your honor. What the hell. You'll be dead and it will be their problem honoring your final wishes. You can depart this world chuckling over their chagrin. It will be your payback to them for their teenaged years.

Hope you feel better soon, by the way.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by marichiko

Hope you feel better soon, by the way.

Thanks.

I was thinking having something like PEPPERONI, SAUSAGE AND EXTRA CHEESE put on it, but then no. In ten years nobody would remember the joke ("What do you want on your Tombstone?") so maybe just an etching of a giant hand, giving the bird? Or, a statue of BigFoot. Something for people to talk about whilst visiting.

How about, "Don't laugh, suckers. You're next!"

That will give them something to think about if not talk about. Its the first thought that goes thru my mind when visiting a graveyard. Sort of helps keep things in perspective, I must say.

Yeah, EXTRA CHEESE!

[Sundae]

From here

Late British comedian Spike Milligan, the creator of landmark radio series The Goon Show, has finally been given his choice of inscription on his gravestone: "I told you I was ill."

Two years after Milligan's death at the age of 83, the epitaph has been added to a Celtic cross above his grave at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, southeast England, it was announced on Monday.

The headstone carries the sentence in Gaelic - Milligan's family originated in Ireland - which the comedian had always joked was his chosen final message to the world.

I quite fancy a cryptic message on mine, in the hope that there might be a local urban legend about buried treasure or some sort of hidden legacy in future years.