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chasing rain Senior Member
since 2001-05-15
Posts 737Canada |
 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?  |
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Kielo Senior Member
since 2002-02-11
Posts 1109 |
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).] |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
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 |
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Opeth Senior Member
since 2001-12-13
Posts 1543The Ravines |
"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." |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
"Stop staring!" [This message has been edited by Dopey Dope (02-24-2003 04:58 PM).] |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Was born. Did stuff. No longer doing stuff. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
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. |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
Epitaph for a hawke... What was that? Did somebody say something? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
No thanks. Cleaning up my own mess might take all the fun out of death. |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
Born 1950 Earth Died 2081 Mars (while attempting to break the Martian land-speed record) |
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PoetryIsLife
since 2001-10-27
Posts 1763...in my boxers... |
*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." |
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Android 17
since 2001-07-21
Posts 664Winnipeg |
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... |
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chasing rain Senior Member
since 2001-05-15
Posts 737Canada |
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. |
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Miah Senior Member
since 2002-08-26
Posts 1062Pennsylvania |
She was loved.... |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
About bloody time as well So...cheerful. "Write something, even if it's just a suicide note." -- Gore Vidal |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
What happened? |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
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).] |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
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. |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
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 |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
Okay, Star Search - Video headstones... "Get off my head!" Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
"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 |
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Anvrill Senior Member
since 2002-06-21
Posts 710in the interzone now |
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).] |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
I look forward to that doom. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
As a postscript, that would be an interesting gravestone carving. I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR DOOM |
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