The "What Do You Think About A Memorial Extraordinary Stories Book?"

It was an ordinary day.  Talking with my wife about something I read recently in the newspaper.  Story was about a fellow whose mother was a fantastic cook and was always making special recipes for her family.   When she died he decided to place the recipe for her favorite Christmas cookies on her tombstone so that all her visitors to the cemetery could try out here cookies.  Pretty neat idea, or is that something that you could never do?  Would you be to upset to ever eat something that you saw on a tombstone?  The story told about a fellow by the name of Charlie McBride who just loved his mother's peach cobbler and when she died he had it etched into her tombstone.  Wonder how many people might have copied the recipe so they could try it themselves?  Seems that recently more and more families are doing just what Charlie did.  Recipes on gravestones are a relatively new phenomenon in the long history of cemetery iconography.  

Charlie realized that you only have one last chance to make an impression after you are gone, so why not have your favorite recipe etched into your final resting place when you die.  Seems like cemeteries from all across the world are memorializing their loved ones by placing  favorite recipes on their tombstone.  Perhaps your recipe may be tried by another family whose relative might have been buried near your mother.  They may enjoy it also and your mother's name will be brought up in other folks homes.  Now, for me...my mother and father were both buried in our church graveyard after being cremated.  There is no tombstone onto which a special recipe can be placed.  Same goes for my wife and myself.  We will be buried in the same historical graveyard.  Perhaps that special recipe could be added to the church bulletin for the burial service.  My mother was a great cook and made some of the best recipes which I would have loved to have carried over into other families.  My mom's creamed peas and eggs on toast was one of my all-time favorites which luckily my wife found out how to make before my mom died.  Perhaps there are many others who would also enjoy the easy meal.  That will never happen; but if they could have at least been put in the church bulletin, my mother would have been memorialized throughout history.  Have to check with my wife and see what she thinks about putting her wacky cake recipe in the church bulletin when she passes.  As for me...well maybe a few of my blog stories could be placed in the church bulletin when I die.  I better get busy and decide which ones would be the best.  Any ideas?  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy,