What do you want written on your headstone?

Question

I want mine to read, "Gee- I've never done this before!"

Answer 1

he's dead, jim

Answer 2

Re: Starla_C --- author of that poem is not "unknown", She was a neighbor of mine, and her name was Mary Frye. She originally released the poem without her name, but her authorship has been on the record since 1983.

This is the obituary that was published in our local paper when she died in two years ago:

Walnut Avenue resident Mary E. Frye, whose poem "Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep" has brought comfort to people throughout the world, died Sept. 15 at age 98.
Written in 1932 on a grocery store bag for a friend who couldn't visit her mother's grave in Germany because of political unrest at the time, the poem soon made its way into sympathy cards and funeral services around the world. It was read at the private memorial service for President Kennedy and countless times during the Holocaust.
It was not until the early 1980s that Mrs. Frey was acknowledged as the poem's author, after Ann Landers wrote about the poem in her nationally syndicated column. Since then it has been published in at least five British and two American anthologies.
Following a reading on British national television in 1995, the program received more than 30,000 requests for copies.In 1996, Mrs. Frye said, "I didn't want one red cent for that poem, that's not why I wrote it. If that poem helps anybody, anywhere, I'm more than amply paid."
The former Mary Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, and orphaned at age 3, moved to Baltimore at age 12. Although she had no formal education, she was an avid reader with a remarkable memory and a determination to learn. She said in a 1984 Eagle story, "If you have that burning desire to better yourself, you can do it."She married Claude Frey in 1927, and in 1944 they moved to Walnut Avenue, where Mr. Frey ran a clothing business and Mrs. Frey raised and sold flowers. She had also worked at the Hippodrome and Palace theaters and at Kresge's department store in Baltimore.
A widow since 1964, Mrs. Frey is survived by one daughter, Linda Mooney of Dundalk.
The Rev. William Viel of Inner Harbor Ministry conducted a memorial service Sept. 22 at Connelly Funeral Home. A recording of her poem by the Amadeus Choir of Toronto, Canada, was played during the service.


Just like to see her get credit.

Answer 3

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
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

(Author unknown)

Answer 4

If you are staring at this headstone, Get me a bottle of jack Daniel's

Answer 5

"Shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars"

Answer 6

Just the name and date of birth. I want to live forever.

Answer 7

I do think sbout this a great deal. So far, the answers are mostly silly, but I want mine to be serious. Something like "She tried to make you all happy."

Answer 8

For thee the entire world and the elements stood still and wept.

Answer 9

R-I-P- Return-If-Possible just kidding. I would have made a difference if I got a good break.

Answer 10

I want mine to say that I was buried upside down so the world can kiss my A_S_S

Answer 11

on mine the wife will write.
thank heavens ,stiff at last