lillybeck

This is a great idea. This will let others know what you were about.

Stitchit123

Its not weird at all When I was about 5 I went to the cemetery with my Gramma to visit Grampa and while I was wandering about checking out all the headstones there was one engraved with a sewing machine just like Gramma's-A Singer Treadle with a 6 drawer cabinet.This was 50 years ago and I remember Grams comment on the dates-it was dated 2-25-1886 to 2-26-1946-She passed on my B/D only10 yrs earlier.---Ain't it strange how some forgotten memory comes back to you Thank you so much for the memory ofa wonderful day with my Gramma :D

purrfectquilts

Not wierd, but loving and kind to do this ahead and not leave the task for your children. I have done everything I can to make it easier for my children after going through trying to make decisions during a stressful time when my husband, mother and father and others passed.

If the sewing machine represents your interests, then go for it.

Maride

Just make sure to buy a plot at a cemetery that will allow it. Some don't permit any kind of ornamental decorations.

pstrwife

no, go for it.

SandraQuilts

NOT weird at all!
I was once home putting flowers out and saw a SUITCASE on a headstone!~I walked over to it and it was new (black granite) and it was a Centurian lady and it said under her name..
"GO GRANNY GO!!!"
Boy, wish I'd known that lady! I can't ever forget it and I love it!

GO FOR IT!~

I'm not going to leave this task to my children either, if God let's me live long enough to get it done... Good for yoU!

homecaregiver

This is true, I just buried my husband in May and he is buried in the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois---Retired Navy Chief and that is how the grave and tombstone is set up. When I was there last, I looked at some of the headstones with the husband and wife and they are really nice.

Pat/homecaregiver

QuiltingNinaSue

Hey, the veterans can get a special tombstone, and for the wife also. Granddad & Grandma has the white marble with the veteran's symbol on it. American Legion can easily spot them and put flags on the grave every Memorial Day without family being present every year.Family is getting smaller, less family where they are buried.

I think the modern way is to "plan" ahead and ease the burden of those left behind to worry about or have less to do. Often they write out their own obits, too.

stoppain

we have had ours for about 20ys

Annz

No not at all.