Rear Window Gravestones

[angelo]

In the last year or so I have noticed a disturbing increase in the amount of death notices or In memory notices on the rear windows of cars and trucks.

My questions are

1) Why would you want to bring to public a very private matter.

2) What good does it do towards healing.

3) How does it affect resale value.

The death of a loved one is so intimate that I can not even comprehend why people would do this.

I will take any answers of the air.

Ang

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

I've heard discussion that the markers along roadways, crosses and what not, are also a fairly recent development in our society.

That makes more sense. More of a warning to other drivers to pay attention.

[NewChief]

One of my friends just posted a sarcastic request on his Facebook page for us to be sure to put up a RIP/In Loving Memory sticker on our cars when he passed. Someone said they would, as long as they could have Calvin pissing on it.

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by frazod

I used to see a car at the train parking lot with a license plate that read "WTC ESKP," which I assume meant that the driver escaped from the World Trade Center on 9/11. I think I posted a thread about this once. What would be the point of that? Was I supposed to pat the guy on the back because he walked down the stairs and out of the building? At the very least that was classless and tacky.

I haven't seen that car or plate for years - I assume the owner either moved or hopefully realized what a fool he was and changed vanity plates.

I see vanity plates all the time, so I have a habit of trying to interpret them as if I were the one getting the plate. I guessed "Want to see Eskimo Pie" before I saw your conclusion. I'm guessing yours is right, but I still like mine better.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

The whole thing is a just a little too odd for me I guess.

Of course, my Dad would tell stories about wakes back in Blaine, Ks. where they actually took the body from the casket and set him/her in their favorite chair while the whole community was there getting wasted and giving toasts.

Kind of a Weekend At Bernie's thing.

That is so cool, I'm totally going to tell my family to do that with me when I kick it.

[Delano]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

That is so cool, I'm totally going to tell my family to do that with me when I kick it.

Well, I ain't afraid of dyin', it's the thought of being dead
I want to go on being me once my eulogy's been read
Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest
You can put my mind at ease if you fill my last request

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just let my headstone be a neon sign
Just let it burn in memory of all of my good times
Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember, I like blondes
I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just make your next selection, and while you're still in line
You can pay your last respects one quarter at a time

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

[rockymtnchief]

Originally Posted by Delano

Well, I ain't afraid of dyin', it's the thought of being dead
I want to go on being me once my eulogy's been read
Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest
You can put my mind at ease if you fill my last request

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just let my headstone be a neon sign
Just let it burn in memory of all of my good times
Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember, I like blondes
I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just make your next selection, and while you're still in line
You can pay your last respects one quarter at a time

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Wow! Both Travis Tritt and Joe Diffie post here?

[Discuss Thrower]

I generally see ones dedicated to people who die young, as in kids, a few Monett people I know have the number of a football player and his name as a sticker as he died in a car accident, if I remember correctly. For that reason I don't find it too tacky, though I have the feeling I see a lot more that are due to illnesses and that's a bit dodgier to me for some reason.

It just seems to be the trend, we see it in the NFL with last year's GU, the year before it LH and 21, the year before that it was 42. The roadside memorial is the most grotesque (in the old sense of the word) for me given that it makes drivers aware of the fact that someone expired around that spot. We see it for the major tragedies, such as the OKC Federal Building fence memorial, the future WTC memorial. In some cases it's warranted, but I feel like our culture is on a trend towards memorializing everything and soon we'll just be out of space and nobody can criticize it because it has such importance to those who it has affected the most.

[StcChief]

Originally Posted by tonyetony

I saw one the other day and wondered how many of these people have been cremated and their ashes strewn someplace and this car is the only physical marker indicating they had existed. Then I got a visual of the car being crushed, kind of depressing really.

do they put their cell phone in the cremation urn so you can call them and here their voice. as someone keeps their service alive