Goodbye cruel world...

[Sparrow]

Well alright, some of you are writers so this should be (dirt) easy...
write your own headstone epitaph! None of us live forever so whether
you plan to spend oblivion in the ground or in an urn or ashes to the wind,
what are those final words you wish a passer-by to ponder?

Here are some good ones to get you inspired...


"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."
John Keats

Man must endure his going hence.
C. S. Lewis

The Stone the Builders Rejected
Jack London

I am Providence
H.P. Lovecraft

Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To digg the dust encloased heare!
Blest be the man that spares thes stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.
William Shakespeare

Against you I will fling myself,
unvanquished and unyielding,O Death!
Virginia Woolf

"Beren"
JRR Tolkien


... and one of these might be my headstone.


Now to heaven or hell I go,
as the crow flies.
Iain Sparrow

... or...

If you're reading this I'm already dead.

[Harpo]

This vehicle has been clamped

[Ursa major]

At last! Beyond the gaze of CCTV.

[Perpetual Man]

I rather like Spike Milligan's:

"See! I told them I was sick!"

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I just KNEW that was a bad idea......

[Sparrow]

And from the Tomb of the Unknown Dentist...

Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity!

John Brown is filling his last cavity.

[Sparrow]

I should include at least one from the Boot Hill Graveyard in Tombstone Arizona.

For all you across the pond, it was the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral that made Tombstone infamous... and later a tourist trap. For us Yanks the town of Tombstone is sort of like what the Tower of London is to the British.

HERE LIES
LESTER MOORE
FOUR SLUGS
FROM A 44
NO LES
NO MORE

http://www.clantongang.com/oldwest/b...rd_graves.html


Check out the list of names of all those who reside at Boot Hill... seems to have been a very hard life back then. But still, the citizens of Tombstone must of retained a healthy sense of humor.

[Connavar]

What a violent town it must have been so many people died violent dead in so few years.


I like these two :

Frank Bowles
Born Aug.5.1828
Died Aug.26.1880 AS YOU-PASS-BY

REMEMBER-THAT-AS
YOU ARE SO-ONCE-WAS -I
AND-AS-I AM-YOU
SOON-WILL-BE
REMEMBER-ME




MARGARITA

Stabbed by Gold Dollar

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Tombstone? You guys don't know the half of it. It was where Wyatt Earp was sheriff and where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place.

[Sparrow]

Yep.
Some of the permanent residents at Boot Hill were sent there by one Wyatt Earp. There was one other sheriff who actually cleaned up the town and was a proper lawman, though his name escapes me right now. He was even more ruthless than the Earp Clan.

[The Ace]

Keep it down, I'm on the night shift !

[reiver33]

Mostly harmless.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Do NOT hit the blue button.

[dustinzgirl]

Pick your clothes up off the floor.

Love,

Mom.

[gully_foyle]

He died peacefully in his sleep... not yelling and screaming like everyone else in the car.
paraphrasing Will Shriner