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Based on a crackchat discussion: What should be on your and/or your pup's tombstone (or memorial, in case they don't actually get a tombstone)?

- Leesha

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[sdelmonte]

Have no time to think on this today. But if Debi sees this, she might remember what Charlie's tombstone actually said (at least as seen in Green Lantern).

Kirk had a pile of rocks. He deserves better and I will come up with something when it's not today.

[sardonicynic]

→ Ben Wade (almosthonorable): Goddamn trains. Never can rely on them.
→ Gina Cowell (deadlinedriven): Blood-sucking publisher, blood-sucking ex-wife. Beloved. Reviled. Dearly missed.
→ Kate Warner (justdidntseeit): Cause of death was not Jack Bauer.
→ Mary Morstan (intendtotake): Mrs. John Watson, thank you very much.
→ Raylan Givens (itwasjustified): He never left Harlan alive.

[the_gene_genie]

HAHAHA, Kate. Brilliant! :D

[mm-spinelstar.livejournal.com]

Data - To be totally uncreative and annoyingly serious (not to mention that this probably wouldn't work on a tombstone anyway), I always loved that quote Picard reads out of Hamlet in the episode "The Most Toys": He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Lore - Spare parts.

Rosalie - She might even have a tombstone somewhere, and it's probably incredibly bland, like "Beloved Daughter" or something. I can't think of anything for her really, because I can't imagine her dying.

Eiji - Ignoring the fact that Japanese people only have family tombstones, it'll probably end up saying something like, "Who said tennis wasn't a dangerous sport?"

[yakalskovich]

Urquhart canonically got taken away by the knacker and buried in a common grave, soon forgotten. His mother and sisters back in Scotland had probably put up a memorial on the church wall before that, as he had been MIA since 1248 anyway. It likely said something bland like "Angus Urquhart of Monadhliath, last of the line, died on Holy Crusade in Damietta 1248. He gave his life for his faith". You can't even blame them, as whoever returned from the crusade from the people who'd gone with him probably told them that merciful lie, rather than going 'He went berserk, killed several of the French king's men, and vanished'. The castle passed into other hands.

Teja is buried (also canonically) in a burial mound by the sea on the (now Swedish) island of Gotland. There's probably some runic stele saying "Here lies Teja, our great King, who died defending us so we could flee the South-Lands. Remember him always!"

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Sam Linnfer: 'Fuck You, Dad.' In the extremely unlikely event that he got one, anyway.

Molly Hayes: 'Keep Running'.

Edna Mode: 'What Are You Wearing, Dahling?'

Minerva McGonagall: 'Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus'.

Personally, I'd like either 'Don't Fear The Reaper' or 'I commend my soul to any god who can find it'.

[shinyhappygoth]

How much of Edna's last will and testament is devoted to detailing the outfit she is to be buried in, I wonder?

The Hogwarts motto has much more vivid implications when it's on a tombstone.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Ben Grimm - Pepperoni... In all seriousness though it'd either be He carried our world and our hearts or some Jewish saying about strength and/or compassion.

Thalia Grace - Following Greek hero tradition, she wouldn't have one. Instead she'd end up with a constellation that likely looked like a pair of combat boots if you squinted right. Assuming she did get one, She saved us when the Gods weren't able...twice. Is it hubris if someone else says it?

[kali921.livejournal.com]

On a semi-related note, my grandparents had a book of Yiddish curses translated into English. One of my faves was this:

"May you back into a pitchfork and grab a hot stove for support."

God, that book had me screaming with laughter every time I read it.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Ace: Assuming the girl gets a tombstone in the end, it could say all sorts of things, depending on who got to write it - Beloved daughter, falsely, or something like Here lies Ace Witherspoon - friend, wife, mother, she will be missed. She'd probably be happiest with just an ace of hearts.

Laranth: Laughs at the idea of getting one. No one's memorializing Jedi these days.

Katya: Would personally come back from where-ever to thump someone who did something so sappy as to make a memorial. Maybe she'll have to next Halloween - Bear does get up to all sorts of ridiculousness.

McCoy: Will, much to his disgust, most likely end up in one of the StarFleet graveyards. He hasn't much bothered trying to fight it though, at that point it won't really matter to him, will it?

Cal: Intends on living forever. But just in case he doesn't, he's sure Emily will pick out something tasteful, name, dates, something suitably cheesy and heart-felt. But he's not leaving his daughter, so he's living forever. So there.

Shaz: Would really really like it if something on there said she was a good copper. A 'DS' in front of her name wouldn't hurt either, would it?

Romana: Has no idea what you're talking about.

Glorfindel: Had a cairn, with small golden flowers growing all over it... right up until the sea rose and covered it and all the lands around it under quite a lot of water. But by then he really didn't care about it anyway. He still gets to hear about it on a fairly regular basis, which is annoying.

[theresnodoor]

Rachel actually has a monument, oddly enough. She was cremated ("a few handfuls of ashes in a pretty china urn") and was supposed to be placed inside it - which didn't happen, for other reasons.

Since publicity of the war basically made her memory a pretty big deal in... the entire universe, really, I imagine there's some sort of inscription on the monument that's all very gracious. Rachel would probably find it trite and hilarious, though.


Personally, I like to think it says Let's Do It.

[camwyn]

Ray: Probably not going to get one, given his lifespan and his Time Lady wife and all, but if someone ever puts up a memorial for some reason he's going to ask very nicely that whatever else they put on it they include the line 'Not A God, Now Stop Asking'. It gets up his nose after a while.

Gordon: Has already been embarrassed enough by the stained-glass window of him in the Ravenholm church, thanks. His tombstone is probably going to have a crowbar on it.

Adrian: Already has one near Rowlesburg, actually, as the military reported him killed in action at Black Mesa. Name, date, eagle/globe/anchor, DEDICATED MARINE AND BELOVED SON. Don't know what he'll get when he actually dies but he's fine with that one.

Ellen: HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD. Which is to say that I've Millicanoned that the Brotherhood of Steel puts their honored dead to final rest in Arlington on the occasions that they can retrieve the bodies, but since carrying the body around to get there tends to be impractical or dangerous, they usually incinerate the body to a pile of ashes with laser weaponry and scatter the ashes at the old National Cemetery. Their names and deeds are canonically kept as part of the archival scrolls by the Scribes of the Order of the Quill, and there's a Millicanonical eternal flame in the Citadel for all those who died under circumstances where their holotags couldn't be retrieved and brought back. So basically, she's not gonna get a tombstone or memorial beyond the Tomb of the Unknowns.

[shinyhappygoth]

Gordon should totally have a crowbar embedded halfway in his tombstone, and a legend about whomever can pull it out.

[alotofgood]

Well.

Yeah.

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[lilium_evansiae]

... well, now I'm just depressed.

[alotofgood]

Ugh. I know, I'm sorry.

[ceitfianna]

Will Scarlett-Loyal to the end

Moist von Lipwig-Not quite fast enough-If Spike or someone who knows him gets to write it or Served Ankh-Morpork if someone who doesn't know him writes it

Jane Austen-Ever herself

Demeter-I don't want to think about what might kill her and goddess

Sameth-He rebuilt the Old Kingdom though his canon doesn't have tombstones but that's what I hope people will say.

William Evans-Went down fighting-I'd like to think he dies a peaceful death but that's not likely.

Tumnus-A true Faun of Narnia

The Pirate King-The sea was his home

I'd rather not have one, just a rather good party and to be scattered over the sea.

[aeons_crackshot]

I don't know that Annabelle would have gotten anything canonically, considering that she betrayed the Society to save Michael. (Oops.) Although I suppose they might have given her one anyway, either out of love or guilt.

As to what 'Should' be on her memorial, hmmm. See you at The Bar, sounds right. (She's not planning on going anywhere and dying now isn't exactly going to stick.)

[gorgonfondness]

Mia would hope for something like this: Mia Malfoy-Ausa, Beloved Daughter, Wife, and Mother And she would probably want this argument that she seems to give to her loved ones every now and then, too: Love is not deserved. It is a gift we are lucky to share with each other. The people of Vane would probably want something grander for her, though.

Lucas..... is hard to say. If he ever gets something, he'd want it simple like his mom's grave. So that'd be: Son of Flint and Hinawa, Brother of Claus, May the kind Lucas rest in peace here for all time. He'd like sunflowers by his grave.

For some reason I've always kind of on and off planned what I want to happen after I die, even though I'm in no hurry for the dying part. I want to be cremated and the ashes to be scattered in the ocean if possible. (The Arkansas River if not.) Sis has agreed to put the word "fuck" in her eulogy of me and I've been picking songs here and there that I want played at my wake. Is this weird at all?

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Eh, my RL Dad has long told us that when he dies he wants a burial at sea. Not a JFK Junior style fancypants one, but one where his brothers charter a fishing boat at Sheepshead Bay and cruise out to wherever, and where there's beer, and at some point while they're all drinking and fishing they get up and tip him over the side and that's the end of that. So you're not the only one who's been doing the planning.

[gorgonfondness]

That sounds like the sort of thing my dad would like, too. Though I imagine him wanting a good old-fashioned Catholic funeral if no one told him about the drinking and fishing option.

This whole DE gives me oddly happy memories of my grandfather's wake. The family was gathered in his house talking about what they remembered of him and what he would be saying to us now. The atmosphere was light and clearly fond. At one point, my mother and I, being on better terms back then, went out and picked up a huge stack of pizza for all of us to eat. That happiness in remembering with family and friends is what I want my wake to be like.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Personally, I want to donate my body to a medical school when I die, assuming my remains are in good enough shape to be useful.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I need to look into what it costs to get your bones wired up as a complete skeleton. Mostly because I kind of want to donate mine to my high school, after they get done with the parts that can be used for organ donor surgery. Purely for the ".... I'm not sure whether we really WANT this kind of alumna dedication or not" factor.

[the_gene_genie]

Gene: 'There'd better be a good pub up there'.

>.>

Ramon: Would probably be something stately, ornate and expensive. And Catholic. Something that he would think befits his status and hints at legitimacy. (Cops probably piss on the headstone.)

[moriendi.livejournal.com]

Alba: Well, so that is that.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Commander Shepard was actually dead for a while, and there is at least one monument in her name (Shepard Memorial Square on Elysium). But what she'd want on her tombstone? From 1 Corinthians 13:13 "Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love."

Abe no Seimei is already dead - he was later deified, which is why he's still around. He has his own Shinto shrine. Who needs a tombstone?

Corazon Escobar would consider herself lucky to have a proper burial at all. If she does, she's content with a gravestone bearing her name, dates of birth and death, and the classic "Recquiscat In Pace."

YT doesn't really care, as long as it's not "Chiseled Spam."

[theoldfirm.livejournal.com]

bushel_o_apples: "Captain of the Black Pearl", of course.

first_runihura would probably have one formal epitaph along the lines of "May God, the Merciful, forgive his sins and receive him in Jannah" and another one, harder to find on the tombstone and probably added later by someone from his unit. "His sins were a soldier's sins, and so were his good deeds. May the latter outweigh the former."

[hey35andholding]

Clementine: has one in canon, but we never see it.. I imagine, at this stage in her life, it would read 'Clementine Johnson - (Age removed by order of the governor): Legalize It.

Dixie: (Post-Canon): Dixie Cousins-County, 1864-1964, Beloved Mother, Grandmother, Wife, Entrepreneur and Entertainer: Filed Her Claim