16 Headstones That Make You Go Hmmmm...

"Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have."  --Benjamin Franklin

1. Either Mr. Green was a real comedian or just an as$h*le.

2. The White family seemed truly grieved to lose their Raymond.

3. Speak for yourself, Mr. Dreher.

4. A little melodramatic possibly?

5. "The world of Chinese restaurant jokes has never recovered from his death." --Mr. Ducke

6. Always the last word with this one...

7. Good for Clement

8. Craigslist meets the Grim Reaper

9. Who was this guy, Arnold Schwarzenegger?

10. I thought an epitaph was supposed to honor the deceased?

11. Maybe Naomi was 'difficult.'

12. Call CSI. How does a dung fork fall and 'penetrate the brain' without a little help?

13. Love the acronym, Dr. Frank.

14. ???

15. Sorry, we couldn't resist including this:

16. Our favorite, Mr. Fast Eddy, who "did it [his] way and wound up here."

Comments

[Temporary Death]

hmm I really liked the clement one.

[Alex]

Thats so depressing...

[foo]

Depressing is the fact that most of these pictures were photoshopped. :-(

[asshole]

why do idiots always call photoshop, learn to spot that shit before saying anything idiot

[Jokes]

Hmmmm...

So many people around, some of them are just special.

[braineater]

foo, most are shopped....idiot

[Richard Bronosky]

I was hiking in the woods and stumbled upon this freaky headstone.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/191690339/

[delfin1]

it's photoshopped and also kind of lame. I have seen funnier real headstones.

[Mike]

In reference to who #9 was. He was a gunfighter in Texas and fough during the Civil War. Apparently killed enough to be remembered as a gunfighter. Guess his tombstone fits.

[Kevin]

I guess writing one's own epitath is kind of the pre-emptive strike of granitic embellishment.

The "I told you I was sick" (or in fact "I told you I was ill")has been a joke of British comedian Spike Milligan since the 1960's. Sadly no-one put it on his tombstone !

[FreeBrain]

On #1
1) GREEN - First of all, the comment from the first is from just a 16 year old... (1985-2001)
- he was telling the truth -
The PRESIDENT of USA was BUSH in 2001, then Mr Green is RIGHT... He definitely lived around DUMB PEOPLE , that elected BUSH!!!...

[jbuck]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshuabuck/1881395276/

[Joao]

seems that several people have used the "I told you I was sick" epitaph. this one is from a cemetary in key west

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsalvado74/159251449/

[agi]

Um, yeah, "she hath done what she could" is actually a bible quotation, so it's not as bad as it seems, I guess.

[APUS]

I think the main reasons for the contradictions were because Tom Jefferson took into account arguments of both the farmers and the merchants. An example of this was when in one sentence Jefferson calls the slaves both equal and inferior. He also talks about how beautiful they are, but were also “made” for slavery. With this and the rest of the document I believe that Tom Jefferson was against slavery, but didn’t want the problems with the South if he abolished it.

[elyxr]

how about the hidden message in this one: http://www.elyxr.com/cherrybox/headstone1.JPG

[Mondariz]

Nice little collection, even if I'm not shopping for one ATM.

Groucho Marx wanted "Excuse me, I can't stand up", but settled for the boring "Groucho Marx 1890-1977".

To Kevin:

Spike Milligan did get "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite." on his stone, which is Irish for "I told you I was ill."

[jason]

funny stuff!!! hahaha

[Monco]

Robert "Clay" Allison was a Civil War vet. and a gunfighter in the Old West. He was an Arnold of his day, although I dunno if he could impale a man with a steam pipe

[Stella Polaris]

Mr Green wasn't older than 16, so I doubt he was that big of an asshole that he/someone wanted it on his gravestone. I'd say it's an inside joke, or something.

5. cracked me up. I know it's horrible, but I can't help it.

6. I love.

10. "I thought an epitaph was supposed to honor the deceased?" What's wrong with this one, dead? Doesn't it say "She did what she could?" I think it's a very good epitath.

14. I also like.

[Common sense]

To the moron that wanted 'proof' that it was photoshopped, look at ANY of the ones that were dated early (1800's is a prime example) now look at how ALL the letters are the same...exactly the same. Since I'm pretty sure they didn't have laser inscription back then photoshop is the logical conclusion

[Astaroth]

#4 is in Salt Lake City. She was the victim of a failed exorcism... True story.

[Siong]

There is a book called "The Final Word" by Nancy Millar that covers all the non-standard epitaphs. You can get it from Amazon!

[Doug]

@Stella Polaris

Just because people today can neither write legibly nor spell correctly does not mean they were photoshoped. Only two are 20th century, and the one with the dung fork, who today is going to make up "dung fork" (A pitchfork mucking ungulate poop out of stalls.)

[Guy T.]

You miss this one:
http://www.guy-tremblay.com/?p=188

[Kayshineflug!]

Kay Shineflug's tombstone says "excuse me" because her name sounds like a sneeze, sillay!

[appleandoak]

Font is still not a good indicator of a photo of a grave being photo shopped. My friend's family recently had new headstones made for old family graves...it was her grandmothers final wish to honor her own deceased grandparents by replacing the cracked stones. These are still very old graves with dates from the civil war time period with brand new stones. My father told me that folks did that a lot in the 1950s...updated old, damaged gravestones.

[ben]

robert allison was a notorious gunman

[ben]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clay_Allison

[Mishy]

Hey APUS, here is the story behind that one.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/headstone.asp

My absolute favorite headstone! :D

[Raffaele]

This is not photoshopped
http://flickr.com/photos/56519325@N00/249596408/

[Barry]

To Kevin, Spike Milligan has got it on his headstone, in Gaelic

[bus plunge]

http://bus-plunge.blogspot.com/search?q=art+imitates+life

[diggers]

I photoshop and can't tell...what do you see that I don't?

[Sweetteach]

I have been depreessed all week and this made me laugh. Who CARES if they're photoshopped? Why is someone always pissing on peoples parades? LOL

[Richie]

I missed this one:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/headstone.asp

[GJ]

For what it's worth, I'm a funeral director and I make monuments. #3 and #15 are both mine, and I can assure you they're not photoshopped.