navwin » Discussion » pipTalk Lounge » Posthumous
pipTalk Lounge
Post A Reply Post New Topic Posthumous Go to Previous / Newer Topic Back to Topic List Go to Next / Older Topic
chasing rain
Senior Member
since 2001-05-15
Posts 737
Canada

0 posted 2003-02-23 11:23 PM


Not to be morbid, but...

Wouldn't it be cool to see your own funeral? Just to sit in the back row and hear people talk about what a wonderful/awful person you were and see who came and who didn't?

It would be, wouldn't it?

Now, wouldn't it be cool to write your own obituary? Oh, yes, it would! SO...

Write your obituary and post it here! What do you want people to read about you after you've gone to a better place (assuming you weren't an awful person)? Go ahead and brag all you want. No one's going to care...much. Besides, you're dead!

...Right?


© Copyright 2003 chasing rain - All Rights Reserved
Kielo
Senior Member
since 2002-02-11
Posts 1109

1 posted 2003-02-23 11:53 PM


My tombstone (Yes, I AM going to have a tombstone that stands up) is going to say "'Praise God, I'm alive!'"



Kielo

I know only one thing, and that thing is that I know nothing.

[This message has been edited by Kielo (02-25-2003 02:23 PM).]

anonymousfemale
Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797
Limbo
2 posted 2003-02-24 05:30 AM


Ahh Leah, that it one of the things that I frequently think about. Last year for English I had to write my own Eulogy which in itself was interesting. I know who would come and who wouldn't. It'd be a small funeral.

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note." -- Gore Vidal

Opeth
Senior Member
since 2001-12-13
Posts 1543
The Ravines
3 posted 2003-02-24 08:16 AM



"He had a lot to say.
He had a lot of nothing to say.
We'll miss him.
We're going to miss him.

So long.
We wish you well.
You told us how you weren't afraid to die.
Well then, so long."

Dopey Dope
Deputy Moderator 1 Tour
Moderator
Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico
4 posted 2003-02-24 04:58 PM


"Stop staring!"

[This message has been edited by Dopey Dope (02-24-2003 04:58 PM).]

bsquirrel
Deputy Moderator 5 Tours
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855

5 posted 2003-02-24 05:39 PM


Was born. Did stuff. No longer doing stuff.
Cpat Hair
Deputy Moderator 1 Tour
Member Patricius
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793

6 posted 2003-02-24 07:39 PM


You see,
It is not this season
That hangs interminably on to
Frigid winds that are shadows
Of faded sunlight,
Nor the blankets cold lain down
For us to try and find a source
Of warmth in their beauty of
Patch worked shades

I do not blame Winter

It is the fire inside
That wanes
with a pain that squeezes
Each breath
and leaves one
Exhaled in thin fog
To freeze
As mist on
Someone’s memories

Do please me
If you can,
And worry not about sheltering
Me from the cut of wind
But think of me in kindness
After last embers and I
Are ash.

Local Rebel
Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767
Southern Abstentia
7 posted 2003-02-25 12:07 PM


Epitaph for a hawke...

What was that?  Did somebody say something?

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

8 posted 2003-02-25 03:59 PM


No thanks. Cleaning up my own mess might take all the fun out of death.
Ron
Administrator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669
Michigan, US
9 posted 2003-02-25 04:26 PM


"Still Waiting for Soon"

Born 1950 Earth
Died 2081 Mars
(while attempting to break the Martian land-speed record)


PoetryIsLife
Deputy Moderator 5 ToursDeputy Moderator 1 TourDeputy Moderator 1 TourDeputy Moderator 1 TourDeputy Moderator 1 Tour
Senior Member
since 2001-10-27
Posts 1763
...in my boxers...
10 posted 2003-02-26 03:03 PM


*starts laughing at Ron*

If you end up that old, Ron, please, come see me and give me some of your wisdom, gained throughout those many years.

~Titus

"On the plains of Hesitation lie the blackend bones of countless millions, who, at the verge of victory, sat down to wait, and waiting - died."
    

Android 17
Deputy Moderator 1 TourDeputy Moderator 1 Tour
Senior Member
since 2001-07-21
Posts 664
Winnipeg
11 posted 2003-02-26 07:18 PM


Hahaha---y'know Leah? You've got a pretty decent discussion here! Hmmm...imagine if that were the last thing you saw. Your own funeral---although, writing your own obituary...wouldn't some people get conceited?

"He was a great guy, with no flaws...who died very happy because he had it all"

Hahaha...it'd be interesting to see, if you didn't quite like their arrangement---but I guess it wouldn't matter. What could you do about it?

Vekrdehk fyc dra uhmo drehk E fyc kuut yd...pid, yd maycd E ymfyoc vuikrd vun fryd E pameajat eh...

chasing rain
Senior Member
since 2001-05-15
Posts 737
Canada
12 posted 2003-02-27 08:57 PM


lol@Ron! Aww.

So far so good. The replies are awesome! Even if you didn't write an obit... Aww! It's okay! I still love you all.

'lex, who cares if people get conceited? We're supposed to be dead! We're here to show off to the world, right?

The world is one, the world is two.

Anyway, I'm still trying to find things to brag about...lol! Nah. Not really. I shall post my obit soon.


Miah
Senior Member
since 2002-08-26
Posts 1062
Pennsylvania
13 posted 2003-02-27 10:02 PM


She was loved....
anonymousfemale
Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797
Limbo
14 posted 2003-02-28 12:56 PM


About bloody time as well

So...cheerful.

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note." -- Gore Vidal

Dopey Dope
Deputy Moderator 1 Tour
Moderator
Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico
15 posted 2003-03-04 07:40 PM


What happened?

anonymousfemale
Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797
Limbo
16 posted 2003-03-05 10:47 AM


nevermind.

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note." -- Gore Vidal

[This message has been edited by anonymousfemale (03-05-2003 10:48 AM).]

JP
Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343
Loomis, CA
17 posted 2003-03-05 12:53 PM


Let's see:

epitaph?  That's fairly easy,

             James P. Burns
           1964 - when he died
      "Everything is your own damn fault,
      if you are any good."  E. Hemmingway

Obituary:

In memory of James (JP) Burns.  Husband to Tami Burns and Father of JaymeeLyn, KaydeeAnn, and Joshua Kade Burns.  These are the true gifts he gave to life and all that needs to be said.

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

brian madden
Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland
18 posted 2003-03-05 05:26 PM


personally i don't see the point in being able to attend my own funeral if i can't get drunk along with everyone else.

WHat would my tombstone say?

how about "from 1980 - 2003 filled in a gap, from 2003 to end of time fills in a hole pushing up the daisies"


or simply "heh you are standing on me"

When I am on a pedestal, you did not raise me there Your laws do not compel me to kneel grotesque and bare. Leonard Cohen



JP
Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343
Loomis, CA
19 posted 2003-03-06 01:00 PM


Okay, Star Search - Video headstones...  "Get off my head!"

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

LoveBug
Deputy Moderator 5 Tours
Moderator
Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697

20 posted 2003-03-06 09:43 PM


"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith"- 2 Timothy 4:7

And I'd want my obituary just to tell about how I loved everyone and how the Lord has blessed me, and how much I loved Him..

And I'd like Bryant's Thanatopsis read at my funeral too.. along with hours and hours of singing..
http://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html

Oh, make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never ever
Outlive my love for Thee

Anvrill
Senior Member
since 2002-06-21
Posts 710
in the interzone now
21 posted 2003-03-11 03:31 AM


Les'see, if I were to die in, oh, say....20 years? My obituary:

"LL Hager, known to a small but devout cult following for unutterably dirty subculture (mostly goth, punk, and other such dead lifestyles) stories, recently passed away.

While the censors are relieved that they will no longer have to chase her work off the market for being 'too hardcore, even for a Canadian,' her fans have taken to a period of serious mourning. Many of them have already admitted that they believed this 39-year-old author really *was* a vampire, like many of her characters.

A movie for her novella, God of Hailstones, had been in the works before new laws in censorship were passed, abolishing the use of controversial sexual material in any visual form. Also, she had been recording vocals for the soundtrack to her own novel, Teaching Spiders to Cry, before laws against  opinionated females were passed. Really, if her career had taken off in the early years of the new millenium, she would have made it much farther.

Of course, she was often known to tell people that her life was going exactly as she had always wanted it. 'After all,' she had been quoted as saying, 'if I didn't have the infamy, what would be the point? Every great artist has to go to jail once or twice. Otherwise, it just feels too tame. A little bit done before.'

While not many will mark her passing (a freak accident, wherein guitar amps in her basement exploded, taking both her and her husband of 15 years out), those who do will undoubtedly be mourning for years to come."

Hmm, am I a bit cynical about future rights? Nope, not at all.

And... My gravestone will read:

"She would have wanted it this way."

Also, Mike's gravestone (since he's taken out in the blast with me. heh   ) will read:

"You're Nny.
You're Smith.
You're drunk."

(don't ask)


remember the sound
that could wake the dead
but nobody woke up at all

rs


[This message has been edited by Anvrill (03-11-2003 03:35 AM).]

bsquirrel
Deputy Moderator 5 Tours
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855

22 posted 2003-03-11 05:11 PM


I look forward to that doom.
bsquirrel
Deputy Moderator 5 Tours
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855

23 posted 2003-03-11 05:12 PM


As a postscript, that would be an interesting gravestone carving.

I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR DOOM


Post A Reply Post New Topic ⇧ top of page ⇧ Go to Previous / Newer Topic Back to Topic List Go to Next / Older Topic
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.
navwin » Discussion » pipTalk Lounge » Posthumous

Passions in Poetry | pipTalk Home Page | Main Poetry Forums | 100 Best Poems

How to Join | Member's Area / Help | Private Library | Search | Contact Us | Login
Discussion | Tech Talk | Archives | Sanctuary