What would you want on your grave?
@shaggin (72240)
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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@shaggin (72240)
• United States
2 Sep 23
@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.
. 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.1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
31 Aug 23
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. 
I told Pretty she could flush my ashes down the toilet if she wanted to. 4 people like this
@shaggin (72240)
• United States
3 Sep 23
@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 (137636)
• United States
1 Sep 23
@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.
At least we have a sense of humor. Pretty doesn't drive so she won't need ashes in the trunk of a car. 2 people like this
@paigea (36315)
• Canada
1 Sep 23
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.
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. 3 people like this
@Deepizzaguy (104160)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
31 Aug 23
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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@Deepizzaguy (104160)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2 Sep 23
@paigea It fits me like a glove.
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@shaggin (72240)
• United States
3 Sep 23
@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 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
31 Aug 23
I had a smile when I read paw print.. Some one very close to their fur babies are resting peacefully there.
. Some one very close to their fur babies are resting peacefully there.2 people like this
@shaggin (72240)
• United States
15 Sep 23
@arunima25 that was my assumption too .
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
30 Oct 23
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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@shaggin (72240)
• United States
3 Sep 23
@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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@wolfgirl569 (108144)
• Marion, Ohio
31 Aug 23
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 (72240)
• United States
18 Oct 23
@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 (72240)
• United States
19 Oct 23
@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 (108144)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Oct 23
@shaggin That's to bad. They could look for one that would just cover expenses
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@RasmaSandra (80748)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Aug 23
I want no grave I just want my aches scattered on the wind,
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@shaggin (72240)
• United States
14 Sep 23
@RasmaSandra I don’t want my body taking up space in the earth either
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@JESSY3236 (20046)
• United States
5 Sep 23
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 (72240)
• United States
15 Sep 23
@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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