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legless may be joking, but this is perfectly true.

my dad's cousin was a bit Odd. so much so that he bought his own plot in a graveyard up in yorkshire, where he had grown up as a child, not in london where he had lived since the end of the war.

he ordered his own headstone, v plain. no "in loving memory" or anything, just his name and dates. only missing the date of death, obviously.

the very next time he went up to yorkshire, he went up to the graveyard to put some flowers on his mother's grave...

AND WALKED RIGHT PAST HIS OWN HEADSTONE!!! how many people can say that?!

he died a couple of years later, and his exact instructions to his solicitor were "take me up there and chuck me in t'soil. no family, no funeral." so my aunt and a cousin were walking past the plot and they noted the grave had now been dug.

10 mins later, on their return, they both screamed - there the coffin was, indeed, just "chucked in t'soil" ! but of all the spooky timing.

the headstone still has no date of death.......
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 8 Feb 2007, 15:52, Reply)