Whats up with the "He will be missed" thing on headstones and such? What, does that mean they have yet to be missed or no one has yet to feel it? I find it a little mean.
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KiloWattKid
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Well, when they're alive, there's no reason to miss them. You could just show up on their doorstep without reason. Now they're dead and you can't ever contact them again.
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it means they will always be missed eternally
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Oh no, the statement can refer to the present as well. Think of it as a shorter way of saying "We will miss him forever"
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would it be better to say "He is missed"? It kind of makes it sound like he won't be missed for long.
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I think it means "He will be missed (forever)"
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There is nothing up with it. I think you're over analyzing.
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many people when putting their thought's on a headstone, it is what is at their most inner wounded heart. "He will be missed" could well mean "He will be missed now & forever" "Gone but not for gotten" those 4 words to many people express so much pain, until you have lost a child,son,father or any close love one unexpectedly due to illness,accident etc and have to deal with all that comes with burying your loved one, right down to putting those last words on the headstone, you too might have a hard time putting your love into the right words. Not only have I had to do it myself, for my Mom & my Dad but also with many other close family members but I work at a cemetery and see the pain folks go though every day. I have walked our 15 acre cemetery which dates back to late 1800 and the saying are the same back then as they are now.
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I find sayings and stuff on headstones kind of pointless...who are they advertising to? Who is going to read this and think "there's one lucky fella, he's gonna be missed"..I mean I really don't understand the point of having anything other than a name to identify the grave on a headstone. Kinda silly really.
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As word spreads of someone's demise, it simply says "he will be missed". You cannot miss someone if you don't know he/she has died. When you find out, then, of course, you feel the loss to one degree or another. That happened here at AB with Nelson's passing..I didn't find out about it for two weeks, nor did many other AB members. He was gone for two weeks and we did not know..thus, we could not miss him. Happy Saturday.
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See there's this person in floods of tears, their ribs ache worse from the racking sobs than they ever have from, say, bronchitis, and they've got one miserable week in which to arrange the funeral of the person who's loss has devastated them, PLUS they have to add up carefully to be able to afford the best arrangements they can. And then the funeral director (as kindly as possible) says: "Words on the headstone cost X per letter and you can fit a maximum of Y words on there, so, what did you want it to say?" "He will be missed" is short enough, cheap enough, doesn't tax the brain to compose. Like any other headstone remark it can't begin to express what the family really feel, but its something to say when you are too dazed and upset to think of something else. And on that level it says so much more, because it says that the people organising the funeral were in agony.
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