I think people would think you doth protest too much and dig you up just in case you had been buried with a long-lost diamond or something. Since we tend to find old graves more interesting than new graves, your best bet would probably be to get a dynamic headstone with a death date set perpetually to ten years before the current date. If you have a birthdate listed, it should be set to eighty years before the death date--it's more interesting when people die younger than 60 or older than 100.
Of course, there are two problems you could still run into. First, what if someone notices the changing dates? I guarantee that if the headstone is otherwise unobtrusive, nobody will. Second, what if the cemetery eventually fills up and stops getting new graves, and your gravestone is therefore interesting just by virtue of a) being in the old cemetery in the first place; and b) being the only apparently young grave there? This is a bit trickier, but maybe you could have the headstone designed to sink into the ground after 100 years or so and, at that point, resemble a cover plate for a utility line.
Regardless, you'd have to make sure to stick around until dynamic headstones become technologically possible.
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Date: 2010-10-10 01:28 am (UTC)Of course, there are two problems you could still run into. First, what if someone notices the changing dates? I guarantee that if the headstone is otherwise unobtrusive, nobody will. Second, what if the cemetery eventually fills up and stops getting new graves, and your gravestone is therefore interesting just by virtue of a) being in the old cemetery in the first place; and b) being the only apparently young grave there? This is a bit trickier, but maybe you could have the headstone designed to sink into the ground after 100 years or so and, at that point, resemble a cover plate for a utility line.
Regardless, you'd have to make sure to stick around until dynamic headstones become technologically possible.
Or you could just be cremated.