picking a tombstone message?

[dawnwas]

Hopefully this is only meant as fun...as I am in no hurry to choose my inscription yet!!
Any ideas what you would have chizzled into the marble?
...." But I hadn't finished..."

[redspookhunter]

yea!
i would have full name and/or any other names i was known as
correct date of birth and death,age and where it happened
all the places i have lived and worked
spouse and children's names
parents,G parents GG parents etc etc
including marriage dates and all page and volume numbers for all above mentioned would be a very big tombstone but at least it would save somone some very time consuming hard work

[dawnwas]

Actually redspookhunter...I would  also love a really busy tombstone,because I would want to leave as much info behind as possible. I have always found myself looking through old grave yards and find myself wishing that more had been said about the people buried there.Like you though I think I would have to end up with something the size of the great wall of china to write it all on!!!

[Michael72.]

Here ya go......you can at least make it look authentic now....have fun.... ..

           http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/download.php


Michael72.

Just a demo:-

[davierj]

I wish I'd thought of Spike Milligan's - I told you I was ill.

Cheers Dave

[dawnwas]

Michael 72....boy was that creepy ...but fun in an odd sort of way...freaked my 16 year old a bit,as typically he caught me out playing

davier.....Spikes one liner was fantastic...did he actually have this on his when the time came I wonder?

[sula_nebouxii]

Dawn, Spike Milligan's tombstone does include  "I told you I was ill" but it has been translated into Gaelic.

Sounds like it took a while to get the family to agree and get it approved
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3742443.stm

Sula

[dawnwas]

Sula thank's for the update.
I saw a documentary on his life through the eyes of one of his daughters a while back.What an incredible man....and a very interesting daughter.At the time she was trying to get a lot of his personal things back from his wife who had just sold the family home.It was sad because the daughter and her other siblings had gone to the garage of the house to pick up things that were Spikes,that had seemingly been dumped in the garage.Of course there are always two sides to every story.
Back to the threqd though...and I wonder how many graves across the world will have the "I told you I was ill" ?

[Lloydy]

Actually redspookhunter...I would  also love a really busy tombstone,because I would want to leave as much info behind as possible. I have always found myself looking through old grave yards and find myself wishing that more had been said about the people buried there.Like you though I think I would have to end up with something the size of the great wall of china to write it all on!!!

Exactly the same......lots and lots of information so future genealogists will know everything about me