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mbaldelli [2009-03-11 02:18:16 +0000 UTC]

I've always found it amazing how people want to mark the testament of one's life through the use of a tombstone. Not through the power of one's life touching other people's lives, not through the living legacies of children, and children's children, and on...

But instead a piece of granite that showed when a person was born, when a person died, sometimes an annotation on who they were married to, and if a family plot, their children and immediate family.

A piece of granite that will lose its meaning in a couple of generations because we humans have such a short term memory even among our own family.

A piece of granite that will most probably end up like the headstone on the right. Broken... Gone... Destroyed by vandals.

Which is why I firmly believe that when I do die (eventually), to cremate me. And if one is headstrong and wants these remains around; Bury them under a tree. That way my ashes can feed life that will create shade for others, or wood for other's needs.

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