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Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
56,262
Faversham
Funnily enough Tubby, his first effort has just arrived on the fax machine:

And it seems to me you lived your life
Between Brighton and Berlin
Never knowing who to cling to
When you couldn't get a table in Cin Cin
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your craft beer went off long before
My Stella ever did

:bowdown: :lolol:
 




wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years
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Aug 10, 2007
13,921
Melbourne
I want to have my corpse fired out of a cannon, landing on the pitch at Selhurst Park in the middle of a game, putting everyone off their chips.

My epitaph can just be scrawled onto my forehead in sharpie.

My previous instructions to the wife were to scatter my ashes lovingly over the tills at Toys R Us on the Goldstone at 3pm on the last Saturday before Xmas.

Will have to think of something else now.
 


Bevendean Hillbilly

New member
Sep 4, 2006
12,805
Nestling in green nowhere
Don't want a headstone, don't even want a funeral. direct cremation scatter my ashes at sea and let my family spend the funeral money on something they want.

Creamations and burials at sea cost a fair bit. They might have enough for a new hat or something.

I my grandad didn’t set aside any funeral money always saying “just leave me out for the bin men” let me tell you, that is NOT an option. Took an awful lot of explaining that did.
 


Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
14,297
Cumbria
We hate Palace!

Can I have that on a tombstone? :lol:

Don't see why not. I was once discussing stuff in the pub with my local methodist minister, and he said something like 'hope Leeds lose - bloody hate them'. I picked him up on this and said that surely in his position he should be thinking about the 10 commandments and the biblical teachings to love thy neighbour and see the good in everyone. His response was 'Yes, that's true - but there's nothing in the bible about not being able to hate Leeds United'.
 


Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
62,763
The Fatherland
Funnily enough Tubby, his first effort has just arrived on the fax machine:

And it seems to me you lived your life
Between Brighton and Berlin
Never knowing who to cling to
When you couldn't get a table in Cin Cin
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your craft beer went off long before
My Stella ever did

:lolol:

Is that you Elton?
 




Seasidesage

New member
May 19, 2009
4,467
Brighton, United Kingdom
Funnily enough Tubby, his first effort has just arrived on the fax machine:

And it seems to me you lived your life
Between Brighton and Berlin
Never knowing who to cling to
When you couldn't get a table in Cin Cin
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your craft beer went off long before
My Stella ever did

Pure Genius I bow before your Magnificents
 








British Bulldog

The great escape
Feb 6, 2006
10,974
Creamations and burials at sea cost a fair bit. They might have enough for a new hat or something.

I my grandad didn’t set aside any funeral money always saying “just leave me out for the bin men” let me tell you, that is NOT an option. Took an awful lot of explaining that did.

How much can it cost to have your body taken straight off to be burned? then your ashes sprinkled off the side of a pier or harbour when the tide is going out?
 




Bevendean Hillbilly

New member
Sep 4, 2006
12,805
Nestling in green nowhere
How much can it cost to have your body taken straight off to be burned? then your ashes sprinkled off the side of a pier or harbour when the tide is going out?

That depends whether you’ve got a mate with a furnace and access to a resealable lid, like an old ice cream container or a couple of empty pringles tubes.

Don’t try to burn a corpse in your back garden as the oily black smoke and smell of roasting human flesh can ruin a neighbours washing if it’s hung out at the time.

It’s definitely one for the professional if a reputable local provider (such a Ian Hart funerals if you’re in the Worthing area....for example).

As far as sprinkling in the oggin make sure you check local tides to avoid dumping charred human offal on bathers/small children/metal detectorists but I imagine, if one were careful, you could cut costs even further by taking a well weighted corpse far out to sea in the dead of night and just push the body overboard from a small dinghy or...for the acutely cash strapped...a li-lo or inflatable Simpsons themed doughnut type platform.

You have not been charged for this advice.

Kind regards

Martin Lewis
Martin.lewis@moneysavirngexpert.net
 






Bevendean Hillbilly

New member
Sep 4, 2006
12,805
Nestling in green nowhere
How much can it cost to have your body taken straight off to be burned? then your ashes sprinkled off the side of a pier or harbour when the tide is going out?

That depends whether you’ve got a mate with a furnace and access to a resealable lid, like an old ice cream container or a couple of empty pringles tubes.

Don’t try to burn a corpse in your back garden as the oily black smoke and smell of roasting human flesh can ruin a neighbours washing if it’s hung out at the time.

It’s definitely one for professional help if it’s a reputable local provider (such a Ian Hart funerals directors if you’re in the Worthing area for example)

As far as sprinkling in the oggin make sure you check local tides to avoid dumping charred human offal on bathers/small children/metal detectorists but I imagine, if one were careful, you could cut costs even further by taking a well weighted corpse far out to sea in the dead of night and just push the body overboard from a small dinghy or...for the acutely cash strapped...a li-lo or inflatable Simpsons themed doughnut type platform.

You have not been charged for this advice.

Kind regards

Martin Lewis
Martin.lewis@moneysavirngexpert.net
 






British Bulldog

The great escape
Feb 6, 2006
10,974
That depends whether you’ve got a mate with a furnace and access to a resealable lid, like an old ice cream container or a couple of empty pringles tubes.

Don’t try to burn a corpse in your back garden as the oily black smoke and smell of roasting human flesh can ruin a neighbours washing if it’s hung out at the time.

It’s definitely one for professional help if it’s a reputable local provider (such a Ian Hart funerals directors if you’re in the Worthing area for example)

As far as sprinkling in the oggin make sure you check local tides to avoid dumping charred human offal on bathers/small children/metal detectorists but I imagine, if one were careful, you could cut costs even further by taking a well weighted corpse far out to sea in the dead of night and just push the body overboard from a small dinghy or...for the acutely cash strapped...a li-lo or inflatable Simpsons themed doughnut type platform.

You have not been charged for this advice.

Kind regards

Martin Lewis
Martin.lewis@moneysavirngexpert.net

The Ian harts of the world are what I am avoiding to be honest, for direct cremation you don't need a funeral director. your body goes direct from morgue to furnace and your ashes come back to your family. funeral directors are a bit like estate agents, they cost a fortune for something you don't really need.
 






DavidinSouthampton

Well-known member
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Jan 3, 2012
17,360
Don't see why not. I was once discussing stuff in the pub with my local methodist minister, and he said something like 'hope Leeds lose - bloody hate them'. I picked him up on this and said that surely in his position he should be thinking about the 10 commandments and the biblical teachings to love thy neighbour and see the good in everyone. His response was 'Yes, that's true - but there's nothing in the bible about not being able to hate Leeds United'.

Speaking as a Methodist and a local preacher, I love it!!

Jesus would have told them not to covet their Premier League rival’s star young centre back!!
 






British Bulldog

The great escape
Feb 6, 2006
10,974
What a horrible thought . It’s very important for family members to have proper closure .

Why is it a horrible thought? you die and just when family get used to the idea they have to go through it again with a funeral?
 


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