I’m astounded that some people have lived such prolific noteworthy lives, were world-famous for decades, contributed so much, made life-changing inventions that the whole world benefitted from …
Yet the only words on their headstone are like “Dad, Brother, Son, We love you.”
Like WHAT?? He invented the xyz and had the leading role in 300 Hollywood films & 20 Guinness world records & discovered the cure for xyz and on & on …
Why not mention any of that on their headstone?
You either knew the person, then you don’t need that information. Or you didn’t know that person, then it’s none of your business.
Sadly, this makes sense.
Do we really need the dead bragging about their achievements the same as the living?
Epitaphs are written by those who loved & survived the decedent. So if they could financially afford the cost of some extra words engraved in stone, it would be a nice way to honor the person they loved.
Last I checked it costs too much to engrave wikipedia articles into headstones.
I love the implication that they found a cure for their own invention
I know, I know it was poorly written but I was just rattling off various examples of achievements that various people have achieved.
I’ll probably use a QR code
And then years later someone will be posting “Why do all these gravestones link to sketchy scam websites?”
You can encode quite a bit of text in a QR code… It doesn’t need to be a URL. Smart idea!
I like this idea a lot! Because walking through graveyards we get curious and we want to know about these people. Especially celebrities, and we would be fascinated to know the cause of death too because of course that’s never written on the epitaph either. I wish cause of death would be written on epitaphs. I know that would be dark & morbid & in poor taste but honestly that’s what everybody’s interested to know!
Ah death the great humbler, but really headstones imo are more for the people close to you left behind than testament of a life well lived😅
Personally burn me and spread some ashes somewhere that makes you - people left behind happy remembering me
The headstone is not there for you. The cemetery is there for you, though.
Because stonemasons charge by the letter.
Ok but what about famous wealthy celebrities for whom money is no concern?
What do stonemasons charge? $100k per letter?
