If I die any time soon, please don't put a date on my grave. I don't want the year of my death on my tombstone, nor the date of my birth. I have eternal life through my faith in Jesus Christ. I'm not truly dead because Jesus is my Lord and Savior, and as long as He lives, as is in the Gospel, I shall live. He was crucified, and so I was crucified in Him. He arose from the grave and since then will always live, and so I arose with Him and will always live. I'm not saying that other Believers who have dates on their grave are in error or that this should become some great Christian practice, because it's irrelevant. Some may object to this idea and say that they would at least want a date marking the 'death of their body,' and you're free and welcome to have your date, but I for one refuse that right.

 As far as I have any control of the matter, I simply refuse to have a date on my grave - it'd be a worldly, inaccurate representation of not only how I've lived this life these past 5.83 years of my salvation, but, for me, an insult to my Savior if I had any control of it. Peter was crucified upside down - I'll die without having a date marking my tombstone. And that's as radical as I'll get for now. If it were up to me, and if I didn't have anyone grieving my death, I wouldn't even put my name on it - only the name of Christ matters in the end. And if you disagree with me, or think that's too radical, then I adjour you to really perceive by faith the reality of the crucifixion of Jesus and the provision of the grace of God to give eternal life to His people. Study it in the Word. It's not radical at all if you truly believe what God's written down. Read 1 Thessalonians about how we don't mourn like the rest of the world when a Believer dies.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

"¹³Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. ¹⁴We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. ¹⁵According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸Therefore encourage each other with these words."

Listen to this awesome demonstration of faith in Christ, and His return. Do you believe God's Word? Do you think that we truly have eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord, as the Word of God describes? One wise person once observed that life is so short that you can measure the length of it by measuring the length of the little 'dash' between your date of birth and your date of death on your tombstone. Well, there's no line long enough to put on my tombstone now because I truly have eternal life in Christ.

Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
Romans 6:22, "But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life."