I was out for coffee with my friends (Christielli and Melissa), when the conversation turned towards the unliving. C was mentioning how she enjoys strolls through the cemetery. I was fascinated to find this quality in a friend, as I absolutely enjoy deathscapes. What brings us both there are very different reasons, but in the end we both enjoy the quiet pretty spaces. I had fallen in love with taking pictures while there, and snooping about the past lives of the residents. C enjoyed the lack of places to spend money. It always thrills me to see what people have on their grave stones. What sums up their lives for everyone else to know them by from death on? I love when there is something interesting that seems to capture that person, or maybe it doesn't at all as I never knew that person to begin with.
I decided based on these words to be dead by that it would be important to me to write what would go on my tomb stone. I seem to have a need to be in absolute control over every aspect of my life, and death should really be no different to me. I fear that if I left this in the hands of those who know me best I would be stuck with something crappy.
Mrs. someone
mother
wife
teacher
1979 - date unknown
This reads to be a big fat boring!! Instead I want wrap around text or something interactive. I want to be known for eternity as more than just a married woman who had a kid and taught a class, lived and then died.
Dr. Ryan
Mystifier
entertainer to all
saintly
1979 - date AD - - maybe I could start the new after death date for my generation.
just some thoughts
3 comments:
That's kind of morbid, thinking about what your tombstone would say, but then I thought about mine (damn you making me think of dying) and I think mine should say, buried alive, or somethign along those lines, jsut to make the news after my death, haha. let's make plans. mike b's bday is this friday, if you want to come...i am free satruday during the day and that's it for the weekend. helping someone move the weekend after. anyways, lets make some plans regardless. amy
Hmmm, I didn't know you were so goth! ;) (I'm a closet goth - love Tim Burton movies and walks in the cemetary... ps the spending money thing was something I said to my roommate's friend so she wouldn't think I was creepy).
I'm going to take some pics one day of some of the cool stones in Mount Pleasant for you. Or.... you should visit me in TO sometime and I'll take you.
Also, if you ever going to Havanna, Cuba, make sure you go to the cemetary there. It's wicked.
Funniest grave stone I've ever seen "In death he still speaketh." It was on a stone where my grandparents are buried and it's like the family joke. My dad and I would always say "Man, that guy just never shuts up, eh?"
I wish I had know that you two enjoy the cemetary strolls! I tend to hind my enjoyment of walking thru and reading about past lives.
I always said that I want a stone that says I lived and how I lived. Not sure why people just want their ashes spread over something, that's no fun.
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