Many users on this site will, I expect, wish to be cremated/donated to science/minced up and given to an animal shelter after they die. Personally, once any body parts that can be donated to others have been removed, I want to be buried.
That's partly for cultural reasons but mostly because I want a cool epitaph on my gravestone. My current choice is...
"FUCK THIS SHIT, I'M OUTTA HERE"
How about you?
"I demand a second opinion"
or
Like Spike, "See. I told you I was ill"
I have lost interest in an 'epitaph,' on a tombstone. I just want the people who knew me in this life...to be able to say that, 'she made the world a better place, because she was in it!'
I have nothIng. I owe much
the rest I leave to the poor
I like a comedian called spike milligan heres gravestone which sais "I told you I was ill"
There's never a convenient time to die.
A couple of my favorite existing ones are:
'The Beat Goes On' - Sonny Bono
'Swingin' on a Star' - Jimmy Van Heusen
"We couldn't decide between cremation or burial at sea. So we had him poached."
Up the chimney for me. I've watched my ex and her family squabble over her mum's grave for too many years. Arguing over who had the rights to the top centre flower pot. Arguing over the plot not being maintained well enough. A massive row over whether or not they should shorten the grave. I don't want to leave that kind of liability behind.
I've filled out the organ donor registration, and the bits they don't want can go on the barbie. Let people get on with their lives. I'm sure those who want to mourn will be able to do so without a shrine.
I quite liked Spike Milligan's "I told you I was ill" but I can't think of anything more original myself. I do want Freebird played at my funeral. There's a rather personal (and somewhat rude) reason for that, that only a handful of people will understand. It'll be a last laugh from beyond the grave (well from beyond the curtans to the incinerator.)
There's a grave in a churchyard in Hertfordshire which reads "she deserves eternal death for her sins" - I'd quite like that one too, just to give people something to talk about!
@diabhal I heard it from someone doing stand-up back in the 80s. Can't remember his name to give him credit, unfortunately.
She came. She saw. She did some shit. She got tired. Shes gone.