Wouldn't it be funny if people told the truth of the deceased.?

Question

For example. wouldn't it be surprising to see a tombstone which read. "he was a prick, no one liked him and he wont be missed". I guess everyone is loved by someone though, right?

Answer 1

Haha!! That would be so true!! I watched this documentary on the Discovery Channel (or TLC) about famous cemetaries and they had the story of a a woman's tombstone that said "See- I told you I was sick" on it. I guess she was a notorious hyprocondriac and when she finally got sick and died, she asked to have that put on her tombstone!! Just thought I would share for laughs!! Great thought though!!!

Answer 2

LOL that would be funny indeed..... but I guess you're right and we ALL have people who love us and people who hate us.... so who is the one who will be allowed to write on our tombstone??? Not the latter of course.... I guess that if you see someone's tombstone with NOTHING written on it, then you can assume that this person was a prick and nobody loved him enough to write something good about him!

Answer 3

Well no one was all bad (Hitler was ressponsible for the VW beetle, Stalin for the industrialisation of Russia, Chairmao for those great clothes and George W......well I let you know at his funeral).

So after someone dies we can say many things about that person, so surely we can find some good things about them.

Sure there are lots of people whose graves I would like to dance upon.

Maybe on the tombstone on side is for good statements the other for bad.

Answer 4

There is an old saying "Never speak ill of the dead" and just maybe we shouldn't say bad things about deceased people as they are not around to defend what we are saying about them. Like you are right and we all know it. For instance "A loving family man" but there could be undertones of "he did bugger all for anyone else though!" but we all understand the etiquette of it I think. Death is a hard thing to deal with so we handle it in expected ways usually.