Do you know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

[Didactylos]

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away

YANBU - Truth! Freedom! Justice! and a hardboiled egg!
YABU - what are you talking about?

That was me that done that. My finest hours.
How do they rise up?

Best books ever, his words live on

In these times, more than ever, I thank Sir PTerry for:
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
GNU
Anyone for a sausage inna bun for breakfast?

Do not stand
By my grave, and cry—
I am not there,
I did not die.

Bit harsh to bury them in that case…

I like this

ALL IS WELL

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

They rise arse up, arse up.

YANBU OP, but quite a few people aren't in the know about what this thread is about!

I'll wear this to work today.

GNU STP

Has anyone read his little book Shaking Hands With Death? It's about his diagnosis, and it's as amusing as one would expect, but heartbreaking at the same time. I laughed and cried while reading it. He really was such a talented man with the most amazing imagination.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Facebook quotes? Cheesy? I can't deal with MN sometimes

I've also read that fans of his who are good with tech have written GNU Sir Terry Pratchett into their website coding so his name will always be "spoken" as long as the internet exists. That is a great tribute. Like a modern day clack system.

Honestly?

Pratchet quotes?

Get on with it then.

Not the worst. Not the best.

Happy Glorious 25th May to all

Yes

I wonder if the new platform means they can easily do it again?

Facebook?!

At this time? And in this place?

If you know, you know.

GNU, Sir Terry.

At much a lower tech level, I do Geocaching and have a series of Discworld caches. I have included that on each page in white text that no one will see.

So, when you die you are not, in fact, necessarily as dead as you thought 🤔

Hang!

GNU Pterry.

All this insider-joke Pratchett bollocks us just unfathomably lame.

Whereas whinging about it is sooooo highbrow. 😂🤣

This is perfectly timed for me. My dad died 2 years ago today and I’m wobbling

This is why I read gravestone aloud.

I was listening to the new Equal Rites audiobook this morning, very enjoyable 🙂
Might put Night Watch on tonight!

See how they rise up.

I'm an atheist, and obviously in a real sense the person is dead.

But, they do live on in our memories, so while I am alive I remember my lost ones and they live on in my head. I don't 'see' them dead, I 'see' them alive and doing things we did together