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For 2 years I had sweet job; Grounds Keeper at a Pioneer Cemetary. The job paid little but I did it on my own time, at my own pace, with no supervision. Needless to say I did an excelent job, especially on Memorial Day; There were alot of GI's in that plot of land, I had known a few of them.
Tending the last resting place of the departed gives one time to think, alot. Viewing the various epitaths on the tombstones always made me concider what I would have on mine.
Now I'm that practicle sort, with few family members, that thinks I'd be better off incinerated and used as fertilizer than stuck away in the ground so deep even Yotes couldn't get a feed off me. Still, it was evident by the head stones that some PPL put alot of thought into that finial memorial. Most head stones on family plots referanced beloved family members that they would soon join in heaven, a few were heart wrenching memorials to children that had died before thier parents, always hard to mow around a memorial where childhood toys have been placed on the grave site.
A very few were obviously thought out well ahead of that person's death, they were political statements intended for future generations, often accompanied by a list of military medals and campaigns, as if that experience added gravitas after death.
So it was no suprise that I got to thinking that maybe a tombstone would be my last best shout-out to future generations, even if my body had been burnt to a cinder and spread across the land I love so well, that tombstone might be unearthed someday and a distant generation learn something about the age I lived in.
So; What's Written On Your Tombstone?
Tending the last resting place of the departed gives one time to think, alot. Viewing the various epitaths on the tombstones always made me concider what I would have on mine.
Now I'm that practicle sort, with few family members, that thinks I'd be better off incinerated and used as fertilizer than stuck away in the ground so deep even Yotes couldn't get a feed off me. Still, it was evident by the head stones that some PPL put alot of thought into that finial memorial. Most head stones on family plots referanced beloved family members that they would soon join in heaven, a few were heart wrenching memorials to children that had died before thier parents, always hard to mow around a memorial where childhood toys have been placed on the grave site.
A very few were obviously thought out well ahead of that person's death, they were political statements intended for future generations, often accompanied by a list of military medals and campaigns, as if that experience added gravitas after death.
So it was no suprise that I got to thinking that maybe a tombstone would be my last best shout-out to future generations, even if my body had been burnt to a cinder and spread across the land I love so well, that tombstone might be unearthed someday and a distant generation learn something about the age I lived in.
So; What's Written On Your Tombstone?
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