Skulls, Willows, Cherubs & Other Gravestone Emojis!

What do you want on YOUR tombstone?

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Mortician: Caitlin Doughty

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[careyfinding]

My husband wants 'I asked for a pyramid, dammit' on his headstone..

[nadiaguzman]

I want catnip planted on top of where I’m buried so all the cats come to hangout

[Lizz]

The best one I've seen is "go away, I'm asleep"

[VictoriaLopez-ncop]

If my family doesn't enscribe "Victoria: Dead and Loving It" on my tombstone I'm coming back to haunt them.

[alaggiolaurino]

I once saw a tombstone for an infant that read:
Though this grave may be small,
please tread with care,
for a world of hope was buried here.

[jpoppinga]

When I die I want to be buried in the middle of the dessert in full scuba diving gear. Just to screw with the archaeologists in a couple thousand years.

[johnbatt]

I'm being cremated. I will rest in a ceramic box that says "Extra Crispy".

[stevenbosch]

I once saw an epitaph in verse at a cemetery near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:

"As you are now
So I once was,
As I am now,
So you shall be."

[jonesgirl]

My father was always good for a Dad joke so we put this on the back of his tombstone:
"Thanks for visiting. Pardon me for not getting up"
I like that he still gets to give people a smile.

[LioMurdest]

Am I the only one who is hypnotized by her perfect hair every video?

[hummingbirde]

I saw a gravestone that said
*"I told you I was sick."*

I proceeded to laugh my butt off.

[SirberusKhaos]

There's one I love near where several of my family members are buried that has hands holding a classic video game controller and it reads "Advanced to the next level"

[aderptedpotato]

One of my friends from high school once said that she wants her headstone to read “this happened because I didn’t forward that email” on it.

[lasrber]

I want 'avenge me' carved in small writing somewhere. Don't actually care what kills me, I just want to confuse people after I die

[mottwoman]

My mom was a nurse and loved teddy bears. For her tombstone, I put a teddy in a nurse hat cradling her picture. I'm pretty happy with it. It's very her.

[icingburns]

My dad is a gravedigger, and there's a monument in his cemetery that has the Starship Enterprise carved on it, blasting its lasers at a buck. The guy was a hunter and a trekkie, I guess.

[Zizzily]

Pretty sure my Tombstone will say, "have you tried turning it off and back on again?"

[ktbela]

When my boyfriend passed away suddenly at age 22, he was in the middle of finishing his final project in a computer science degree. His family decided to honour that by having a stone laptop made for his gravestone. It suits him perfectly.

[caseyeddins]

I saw a gravestone in a very old likely Puritan cemetery in Salem, MA that featured a quote stuck with me. It read, “Time was I stood as you do now, And view the dead as thou doft me, E’re long you’ll lay as low as I, Eid others stand and gaze on thee.” I kind of love how it brings the reader to think of their own mortality as well as reminding them that the person buried there once did the same.

[keepinitsurreal]

On my husband’s & my tombstone it has a quote from Will Rogers: “If there are no dogs in heaven, when I die I want to go where they went.”
Short & sweet.