final words... your epitaph

by chickpea 38 Replies latest jw friends

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  chickpea

  epitaph

  1387, from O.Fr. epitaphe, from L. epitaphium "funeral oration, eulogy," from Gk. epitaphion, neut. of epitaphos "of a funeral," from epi- "at, over" + taphos "tomb, funeral rites." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

  ever think about what yours might be?
  google famous epitaphs to see some
  clever, some pithy, some noble words carved in stone.....
  
  mel blanc's "that's all folks"
  
  edgar allen poe's 'Quoth the raven "Nevermore" '
  
  Simonides wrote the famous lines about
  the Spartan rearguard under Leonidas
  who held the pass of Thermopylae
  against the Persians in 480 BC.
  One translation of Simonides' epitaph runs thus:-

  Tell it in Sparta, thou that passes by
  Here, faithful to her charge, her soldiers lie

  no one in my family will consider
  anything but cremation so there will
  not be a "final resting place" for me

  but i had once upon a time decided on an epitaph.....
  
  "If you have come here to mourn,
  you did not know me very well."
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  DJK

  I have a plot picked out in a cemetary that doesn't allow headstones, only brass plates flat on the ground so the ride on lawn mower can drive right over it. hehe

  If I could have an epitaph it would be a line from a Bon Jovi song called Blaze of Glory.

  "They say when your brought into this world your born in sin; well that's something they gave me I didn't have to steal or win".
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  *summer*

  no one in my family will consider anything but cremation so there will not be a "final resting place" for me

  Same with me...no final resting place.

  My last wishes are very simple. I want the song "Imagine" to be played while my ashes are scattered in water. And from there, I will know where to go

  But if i had to think of an epitaph, it would be "Imagine..."
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  burningbridges

  on my head stone i want:

  mourn not for me for family dear,

  I am not dead but sleeping here.

  As I am now, so you shall be.

  Prepare yourself to follow me.

  When I was a teen I saw that on an old crumblinbg headstone from the seventeen hundreds. thought it was beautful. still do.
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  ninja

  ninja...died peacefully in his sleep...unlike his passengers who died screaming.......the old ones are the best......
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  wha happened?

  cremation for me. Along with pouring of my ashes in the ocean, everyone toasting a glass of wine
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  IP_SEC

  Mad, bad, & dangerous to know.

  I insist on the ampersand rather than spelling and out. More accurately reflects my lazy character.
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  JeffT

  Before I quit drinking I would have wanted "his last words were 'hold my beer and watch this.'"
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  Priest73

  I'm all for the cremation tip. My only request is, for my close friends to throw handfuls of me at people I didn't like.
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  sweetface2233

  Liked by many, loved by none.