What would you want on your grave?

@shaggin (71665)
United States
August 30, 2023 10:25pm CST
While geocaching I’m in cemeteries very often. My husband finds it creepy how much I enjoy cemeteries. I think they are peaceful and I love to see all the unique and beautiful graves. Lately I’ve seen ones with portraits on them, one with a semi-tractor trailers, one with paw prints, one with a dulcimer and many with beautiful plants growing in front of them. It made me wonder if the flowers were the persons favorites or if whoever planted them are the ones who like those. I wonder what others would want etched on their graves. Maybe the geocaching symbol. The photo is of flowers I have seen lately.
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@AmbiePam (85682)
• United States
31 Aug
I just wish I could see the picture since the ones you always post are so amazing.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
2 Sep
@AmbiePam aww thank you. I just tried again to get it to unload and it’s the site glitching again and won’t show it . I love photos here I’ll be so sad if this never gets fixed but at least we still have myLot to come to. I keep worrying it will disappear.
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• West Haven, Connecticut
31 Aug
same
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
31 Aug
I won't have a grave so no need to plant flowers for me. I told Pretty she could flush my ashes down the toilet if she wanted to.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
3 Sep
@Daddyevil that’s funny that’s what I always say as well flush my ashes down the toilet for all I care once I’m gone I’m gone.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
1 Sep
@paigea At least we have a sense of humor. Pretty doesn't drive so she won't need ashes in the trunk of a car.
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@paigea (35754)
• Canada
1 Sep
Dad's! Hubby told his kids he was saving bear shaped peanut butter jars for each of them. He said he was giving each of them a jar of ashes to put in the trunk of the car. That way, if they got stuck in the snow, he would be able to help them one last time.
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@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
31 Aug
A Mylotter after my own heart - I also find some odd sense of comfort and peace in cemeteries. And like you, my husband finds it weird. But he will gladly go with me when I asked him to go with me.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
5 Sep
@Raine38 my husband things it’s really weird and doesn’t understand why I like them . I feel the same way about him hunting .
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@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
5 Sep
@shaggin Same here - my husband hunts. I joined him once, and for the life of me I cannot understand how he can be still, in the cold, and after that even without shooting anything, he thinks it's a good day.
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@jstory07 (134657)
• Roseburg, Oregon
31 Aug
I do not care what is put on it.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
13 Sep
@jstory07 you have a wonderful husband who if you die first I’m sure will he will see your stone is perfect for you
@Deepizzaguy (94913)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
31 Aug
What I like put on my tombstone would be flowers and the words "He tried to live in the light that he was given."
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@paigea (35754)
• Canada
1 Sep
Lovely.
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@Deepizzaguy (94913)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2 Sep
@paigea It fits me like a glove.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
3 Sep
@Deepizzaguy that would be a beautiful thing to see written on a tombstone. There’s a bench in town in honor of a girl that was murdered. It says “I came back as a bench”. I think it is odd so it must have a back story.
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@arunima25 (85579)
• Bangalore, India
31 Aug
I had a smile when I read paw print.. Some one very close to their fur babies are resting peacefully there.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
15 Sep
@arunima25 that was my assumption too .
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@arunima25 (85579)
• Bangalore, India
21 Sep
@May2k8 (18096)
• Indonesia
27 Oct
I need perfume, so that no one stays away from me.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
27 Oct
@May2k8 they do not use embalming stuff there when people are buried?
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
30 Oct
@May2k8 hmm I assume they do that here as well but they take out the blood and stuff and fill them with formaldehyde to keep them from stinking. I like how they do it where you are better.
@May2k8 (18096)
• Indonesia
29 Oct
@shaggin people are only buried after being bathed but sometimes they smell very good.
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@reploid (1371)
• France
31 Aug
To be honest, alive and growing cannabis plants and magic mushrooms.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
21 Sep
@reploid I’m not sure that your response makes sense to me? That is what you would want your grave to say?
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@reploid (1371)
• France
22 Sep
@shaggin Hi, your question is "What would you want on your grave ?" and not "What would you want on your grave to say ?". I can't see why my response does not make sense.
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@Shavkat (137238)
• Philippines
31 Aug
It is a sad thing that I cannot see the flowers. My parents' tomb is surrounded with beautiful plants with flowers. I just want to have them if ever.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
21 Sep
@Shavkat who planted all the flowers on your parents tomb?
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
18 Oct
@Shavkat they don’t come up annually you have to replant them each year?
@Shavkat (137238)
• Philippines
25 Sep
@shaggin My younger sister did. I am sure we are going to plant again before November 1st.
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@RebeccasFarm (86819)
• United States
30 Oct
Well doesn't matter what I would want.or want..I'll be cremated and end of it. No headstone or burial.
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@LadyDuck (459212)
• Switzerland
31 Aug
No grave for me, I want to be cremated and have my ashes dispersed.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
3 Sep
@LadyDuck I don’t want to take up space in the ground either. I think my husband wants to be buried though and my first husband did as well so perhaps I can have my ashes on both their graves. I’ve been told some people can dig down a foot or so and place the ashes.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
4 Sep
@LadyDuck interesting! I like the idea that they have a garden like that where ashes can be spread.
@LadyDuck (459212)
• Switzerland
3 Sep
@shaggin - The ashes cannot be placed on graves here, there is a consecrated garden where they are dispersed. We can choose to have the ashes placed inside a urn, in this case the urn remains in the cemetery.
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@wolfgirl569 (95748)
• Marion, Ohio
31 Aug
No photo. We told the kids to do whatever is cheapest when the time comes. But I know a lady that took her kids for walks in the one across the road from her
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
18 Oct
@wolfgirl569 there was one I visited recently that people were jogging through and biking through I thought it a bit odd but they probably feel geocaching in a cemetery is weird too. Doing whatever is cheapest is a great idea for you to tell your children. It lets them off the hook if they can’t afford what you wanted like an expensive burial. If they can they may anyway but if they can’t having the low cost option to not feel guilty about it good. I think both my parents want to be buried. My sister and I would never be able to afford it.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
19 Oct
@wolfgirl569 my parents had to cash in their life insurance policy many years ago when my dad has a stroke and was out of work
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@wolfgirl569 (95748)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Oct
@shaggin That's to bad. They could look for one that would just cover expenses
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@sol_cee (38222)
• Philippines
6 Sep
The one with paw prints is just so
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
12 Sep
@sol_cee you know they must have adored their pet
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@sol_cee (38222)
• Philippines
13 Sep
@shaggin truly amazing those people are
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@Gilljane (2905)
• Sutton, England
9 Sep
I would say. told you I was ill
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
12 Sep
@Gilljane that would be a funny thing to see on a grave.
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@Gilljane (2905)
• Sutton, England
12 Sep
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@youless (112124)
• Guangzhou, China
1 Sep
In fact my plan may be different. I just want my ash will be burried under a tree to throw into the ocean and that's it. I am not interested to having a tomb at all. As I don't want it to be a burden for my descendants
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
8 Sep
@youless sounds like a great idea to me. Not sure which areas allow ashes to be put in the oceans though.
@nitsbubb (1308)
• Pune, India
23 Oct
Never thought of this
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
27 Oct
@nitsbubb well now that you have any idea what your’d prefer?
@RasmaSandra (73751)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Aug
I want no grave I just want my aches scattered on the wind,
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
13 Sep
@RasmaSandra I don’t want my body taking up space in the earth either
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@JESSY3236 (18953)
• United States
5 Sep
I like going to cemeteries too. I think it runs in our family because my mother, my uncle, and my cousin like going too. I would like mine to say I was a creative person and have a paw print on it.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
15 Sep
@Jessy3236 maybe you enjoy it because you went often with your mom? Maybe my little one will enjoy it someday as well since she’s been to so many with me.
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@paigea (35754)
• Canada
1 Sep
I find graveyards peaceful too. And I wonder about the people's stories. I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered.
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@shaggin (71665)
• United States
5 Sep
@paigea yes I always wonder about the people as well. I always wonder what kind of lives they led. I would like to be cremated as well.
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@Karusa (704)
• Italy
31 Aug
This is a creepy question that I can't answer. My ex used to ask me where I want to be buried and I always changed subject
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