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https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-tombstones-epitaphs/a lot more at the link up top
madaboutharry
(40,203 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Not creepy at all . . . . .
Lochloosa
(16,062 posts)MiniMe
(21,714 posts)NNadir
(33,512 posts)...piss on Aaron Burr's grave - it's near where I live - to let him know that there had actually been a worse Vice President than he, in Dick Cheney.
Of course, now we have that stupid bigot Pence in the office, along with a so called "President" who is actually an ignorant uneducated gangster whose thugs, as we're seeing, are engaged in interesting mob tactics like money laundering and God knows what else.
If Trump and his pet inquisitor Pence are both driven from office and into prison, I may not be able to suppress the urge to visit Aaron Burr.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)From Boot Hill (cemetery) in Tombstone, Arizona
HERE LIES LESTER MOOR
FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44
NO LES, NO MORE
NNadir
(33,512 posts)...rather be subject to excarnation, a process where a body is left to rot above the ground eaten by scavengers and insects.
I have come to realize that this is actually possible in the United States, if one donates one's body to a body farm of the type utilized by schools for training forensic scientists and police investigators.
Of course, the matter is not up to me and in any case I will be unable to offer any opinion on the subject, being dead.
It would be appropriate however.
Alternatively I could have my flesh dissolved, and my skeleton hung in some class room. This, I think, would be an excellent memorial to what I was in life.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)I realize I've never thought about how forensic scientists and police investigators were trained.
NNadir
(33,512 posts)The Wikipedia article covers it quite well.
Sky Burial
What I like about it is the nutrient flow, particularly phosphorous, an element I have borrowed while I live but which is certainly not mine to keep forever.
Phosphorous is not a "renewable" resource, and as we, in this generation, have robbed all future generations of so much, I feel the least I can do is set my phosphorous free so they may have at least that.
I like this idea. I'm trying to sell it to my wife and kids. It will be their call.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)The fudge recipe, I guess that she was constantly asked for that recipe.
The tomb that mentions that they finally found a parking spot is quite appropriate for my town. I'll keep it in mind.
blaze
(6,354 posts)I read somewhere else that she always told people, "I'll give you that recipe over my dead body!"
Don't know if it's true, but I like it.
Gamey
(422 posts)WE Killem. Oh, the irony.
[link:https://imgur.com/a/8aXAB|]
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,145 posts)I visited there with my grandmother when I was in high school and I remember.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I think the crime was horse thief or hanged the wrong horse thief.
elleng
(130,861 posts)HOW does it happen, tell me,
That I who was most erudite of lawyers,
Who knew Blackstone and Coke
Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech
The court-house ever heard, and wrote 5
A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese
How does it happen, tell me,
That I lie here unmarked, forgotten,
While Chase Henry, the town drunkard,
Has a marble block, topped by an urn, 10
Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical,
Has sown a flowering weed?
Spoon River Anthology
http://www.bartleby.com/84/12.html