What a bunch of square pants!

[Wolferz]

http://news.msn.com/us/iraq-veterans...estone-removed

And Indian givers too.

Worse than an HOA.

[Dread Knot]

On a dark and spooky night a sight like this in a graveyard could bring on cardiac arrest.....due to laughter.

Look! It's Sponge Bob Slab Pants!

[fireftr18]

Although it is a stupid looking headstone, I agree with the family. In fact, I would even enjoy seeing something like that in a cemetary. At least the cemetary is willing to pay for the change.

[Platapus]

It sounds like the cemetery company is trying to work with the family toward a solution.

ind a solution, which could include a more traditional gravestone bearing small likeness of the character.

They are also going to reimburse the family for the expense.

A company employee made a mistake. That should not be binding on the company. If I had relatives in that cemetery I would not want those markers either. The family has to realize that there are more families involved then just them.

The cemetery should never have approved the original stones.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Platapus

It sounds like the cemetery company is trying to work with the family toward a solution.

They are also going to reimburse the family for the expense.

A company employee made a mistake. That should not be binding on the company. If I had relatives in that cemetery I would not want those markers either. The family has to realize that there are more families involved then just them.

The cemetery should never have approved the original stones.

I concur since a cemetery is a place for quiet introspection and nothing breaks that up like laughter.
As well they should reimburse the family for an employee mistake and learn to train their sales people in the rules before setting them loose on grieving relatives. Every company is liable for the actions of their employees unless they take the cheaters way out and incorporate as an LLC. I think the cemetery folks are being very gracious about it.
I've seen the final resting place of Jimi Hendrix and his headstone has a guitar engraved on it. It's nothing too flashy either. It's a flat surface mount jobbie to allow a mower to pass over it. They can do something similar for the two young ladies in the story.

The only oddity is the pennies and guitar picks that fans have super glued to it.
Nobody will need to worry about mine because I don't believe in owning any part of this planet. Especially land used as a garbage pit for my mummified remains.
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust and no rotting involved.

[Oberon]

Reminds me a bit of the problem they had with Spike Milligans grave, he wanted 'I told you I was ill' written on it, but the church got uppity about it, so they settled for writing it in Irish instead.

[Jimbuna]

Wasn't there one a while back belonging to a comedian which when read stated "What the f are you looking at?"

[TarJak]

In all honesty it looks better than some of these headstones:








Personally I don't think Spongebob looks too bad and I'd be telling the cemetery to put them back if I'd paid for them.

[Sailor Steve]

I'm up in the air over this. I think people should have whatever they want, as long as it's not obscene. On the other hand Platapus makes some good points, and some folks might find Spongebob obscene.

On the other hand...

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Nobody will need to worry about mine because I don't believe in owning any part of this planet. Especially land used as a garbage pit for my mummified remains.
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust and no rotting involved.

My sentiments exactly. There is a lot of space living people could use being taken up by those who no longer need it. I'm not advocating getting rid of cemetaries, but I don't plan on being part of it.

[Armistead]

I suffer from claustrophobia, so no casket for me. I know it's not supposed to matter, but just the thought of being trapped in a box underground disturbs me while I'm alive.

I have it clearly stated in my will, no funeral, no service, no nothing, have me cremated and give the box to my family to dump in the woods where I use to live...

[Herr-Berbunch]

A seven-foot headstone of Spongebob might be a little unorthodox for a cemetery, two of them doubly-so.

At least it's not a tiny sudoku - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24580742

The widow of a mathematician has been told to remove a Sudoku puzzle from his gravestone by the council.

[Platapus]

Unfortunately, my final resting desires are probably illegal.

After harvesting any organs that may be useful, I would want my body to be dumped in the middle of a huge forest. To be assimilated back into nature.

My body could feed countless animals, bacteria, and in the end help feed the forest itself. I am a part of nature. Nature has a system of "recycling".

I find the idea of pumping my body full of chemicals and locking it in an airtight box so only the anaerobic bacteria can feed on me to be abhorrent.

Cremation is a lot cleaner, and what I will probably be forced to do, but at the same time a waste of nutrients. Soylent Green jokes aside, there is much in nature that could benefit from a body that I no longer have a use for.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Unfortunately, my final resting desires are probably illegal.

After harvesting any organs that may be useful, I would want my body to be dumped in the middle of a huge forest. To be assimilated back into nature.

My body could feed countless animals, bacteria, and in the end help feed the forest itself. I am a part of nature. Nature has a system of "recycling".

I find the idea of pumping my body full of chemicals and locking it in an airtight box so only the anaerobic bacteria can feed on me to be abhorrent.

Cremation is a lot cleaner, and what I will probably be forced to do, but at the same time a waste of nutrients. Soylent Green jokes aside, there is much in nature that could benefit from a body that I no longer have a use for.

Hopefully you will have some element of control over it and when your time is near you can just take a long hike and have it the way you desire.Of course in the grand scheme of things even the Russian guy with the fancy grave will get recycled everyone fades away sooner or later his efforts are wasted.

[ETR3(SS)]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Unfortunately, my final resting desires are probably illegal.

After harvesting any organs that may be useful, I would want my body to be dumped in the middle of a huge forest. To be assimilated back into nature.

My body could feed countless animals, bacteria, and in the end help feed the forest itself. I am a part of nature. Nature has a system of "recycling".

I find the idea of pumping my body full of chemicals and locking it in an airtight box so only the anaerobic bacteria can feed on me to be abhorrent.

Cremation is a lot cleaner, and what I will probably be forced to do, but at the same time a waste of nutrients. Soylent Green jokes aside, there is much in nature that could benefit from a body that I no longer have a use for.

That's why I plan on being buried at sea. Think of all the fish that could feed on me, and then think of all the people that could feed on those fish. And then think of those people thinking about what the fish ate last, my ass.

I find the idea of pumping my body full of chemicals and locking it in an airtight box so only the anaerobic bacteria can feed on me to be abhorrent.

Do it like we do over here. They die you do the wake then throw them in the ground the next day. None of that pumping the body full of chemicals to preserve it until they get round to eventually putting it in the ground.