The strangest graves in the world

The sun illuminates gravestones in a cemetery near Bath on October 9 2008 in Somerset, England.

It's what he/she would have wanted. Apparently.

And if the dead request to be buried underneath a stone replica of a 1982 Mercedes Benz 240 Diesel Limousine, or sitting bold upright, who are we, the living, to argue?

io9.com have collated a list of some of the strangest real-life graves in the World, complete with pictures and the stories behind the unusual tombstones. Life may be short, but this is still worth a moment of your time.