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When we one day shed our mortal coil, what would you like inscribed on your headstone?

I think mine would be:

  ___________
 /           \
/ Ray Booysen \
|             |
| IDisposable |
|             |
| 1982   2009 |
|             |
+9  A: 

Fatal Exception. This application has been terminated.

Aaron Digulla
+11  A: 

Mine would read:

!Alive
Sean Bright
+33  A: 

It would depend on the circumstances of my demise.

"Normal" death of old age:

exit(0);

Sudden, untimely or tragic death:

exit(1);
Adam Bellaire
Need to put that into your will. ;)
Ray Booysen
Should that be abort() ?
Andrei Taranchenko
Don't you mean EXIT_FAILURE? According to the standard, it's not necessarily 1. ;)
Derrick Turk
A: 

Self.Release();

Lasse V. Karlsen
+12  A: 

0xDEADBEEF

paul
Some people might prefer 0xdeadbabe :)
João da Silva
@ Joao: Those people are really creepy... :)
Drew Hall
+29  A: 

If you can read this, my current project will be late.

Aaron Digulla
+1  A: 

Zarro Boogs

Mark Renouf
+1  A: 

"Granite" Screen of Death

Mark Renouf
+3  A: 

Released but not Collected.

seanyboy
+13  A: 
VonC
+5  A: 

"I smacked my head into the screen, until my skull was bust, For where I thought it should be minus, sadly it was plus."

jheriko
+12  A: 

Good programmers never die... they just become zombie processes.

Mark Renouf
I think this is my favorite!
Theresa
+1  A: 

Mine's going to say just one word: Oops!

Or: I guess it was a bug...

BenAlabaster
+12  A: 

"I'm doing science and I'm still alive"

annakata
Will there be cake?
Sakkle
No, the cake is a lie
Neil Aitken
There will be cake, and you will be baked.
Paul Dixon
Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence.
annakata
+4  A: 

"No Longer Relevant"

Paul Tomblin
Why not deprecated ;-).
Gamecat
"No Longer Relevant" is a Stack Overflow question closing reason.
Paul Tomblin
A: 

As an old windows developer, just a blue screen will be enough. No text (Kiss).

Gamecat
+3  A: 

i've always found "gg" to be a pretty fitting inscription

Silfverstrom
+1  A: 

Warning: Unreachable Coder.

MadKeithV
Shouldn't that be an error? Warnings are for revertible conditions.
Aaron Digulla
I still hold out hope for it being a revertible condition ;-).
MadKeithV
+14  A: 

depth += 6.0

Scott Vercuski
shouldn't that be "depth -= 6.0"?
Nik Reiman
not if you take (0,0) to be the top left corner of... umm...
nickf
also, did you initialize the depth variable?
Mostlyharmless
good point ! forgot that depth = 0 and subtract ... or maybe I want a tomb instead of a coffin ? ... nah ... it's just a bug .... criminy ... I need a debugger even in the afterlife !! :)
Scott Vercuski
@sqook: I think it would be 'height -= 6.0' and 'depth += 6.0'. Surley the variable name has that implication? Also the units are missing... :)
paul
+1  A: 

$me = null; or unset($me)

Neil Aitken
+2  A: 

If only medicine would have been as fast as my m4d c0d1ng 5k|llz.

Aaron Digulla
+5  A: 

maybe something along the lines of:

          }
     }
}
?>
The.Anti.9
Or the Lisp equivalent: ))))))))))) +1!
Drew Hall
+7  A: 

"It built on her machine."

Sara Chipps
+3  A: 
if(flowers==1)
{echo "Welcome to my tombstone!  I hope you enjoy your visit"}
else
{echo "Where are mah flowers?"}
mvrak
A: 

"Son of a...!"

TheTXI
+22  A: 

<body style="margin-top: 72in">

nickf
+32  A: 

Mismatched tag: Expected: <fiveMoreYears> Found: </life>

nickf
more complete than my version :) +1
VonC
+6  A: 
ng5000
A: 

this.Dispose()

or maybe

01100111011011110110111101100100011000100111100101100101

ZombieSheep
+1  A: 

/away brb

...

Ilia Jerebtsov
+1  A: 

Last Words: "Oh come on! Its not like this killing machine I just created is going to turn on its own creator and k....GAK!!!"

OR

Last Words: "Double checking your pointers before compiling is for sissies."

Mostlyharmless
A: 

Guru Meditation

Paul Dixon
+3  A: 

Warning! Deprecated method

+2  A: 

I would like to have this on there: BSOD boobs

Interactive Development Corp
+1  A: 

Exception in thread "me" humanity.life.NullPointerException
at Humanity.procreate(body.cell:42)
at Humanity.learn(body.cell:435)
at Humanity.grow(body.cell:43)
at Humanity.main(body.cell:5)

Hmmm

Sybiam
+1  A: 
*((Person *)0)
geofftnz
+11  A: 
        switch (Religion)
        {
            case "christian":
                if (good)
                {
                    Thread heaven = new Thread(new ThreadStart(delegateEnterPearlyGates));
                    heaven.Start();
                }
                else
                {
                    Thread hell = new Thread(new ThreadStart(delegateLakeOfFire));
                    hell.Start();
                }
                break;
            case "buddhist":
            case "hindu":
                return;
            default: //also to include atheists and agnostics
                life = null;
                break;
        }
keithwarren7
A: 

How about:

_life--

benPearce
+1  A: 

Or simply: NullReferenceException

Ray Booysen
A: 
C:\returntolife

'returntolife' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Jason Miesionczek
+5  A: 

Here lies Conrad.

EOF

Conrad
A: 

How about:

Z.Billy : ISerializable

+6  A: 

"I've finally stopped getting dumber."

Came across this one today while reading about Paul Erdős

Evgeny
A: 

Life not found A)bort, R)etry, F)ail

GregD
A: 
RobH
A: 
 end.
SqlACID
+7  A: 

How about this one:

People--;
BoltBait
A: 

Respawning in 10, 9, 8...

A: 

When the software is gone, the hardware is useless

GvS
+1  A: 
//Here lies a code monkey
//He compiled, he executed, he crashed

//REST IN PIXELS
Kamal
A: 

Java Programmers don't die...they simply wait for garbage colleciton to happen!!

Suraj Chandran
A: 

How about:

/afk
abeger
+2  A: 

I think mine would be

Upgrade complete. Rebooting

Tom
A: 

As anagram enthusiast, mine would be:

  ______________
 /              \
/ Systempuntoout \
|                |
| LIFE NOT FOUND |
|                | 
| 1975     2010  |
|                |
systempuntoout
A: 
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main ()
{
  pid_t child_pid;

  child_pid = fork ();
  if (child_pid > 0) {
    sleep (FOREVER);
  }
  else {
    exit (0);
  }
  return 0;
}
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