How many of you will have CFA chiseled on your tombstone after your death?

Water Cooler
#1

I have seen Itera mention this “CFA embeded on tombstone” quite a few times.Just wondering if any one of you would actually love to have CFA chiseled on your tombstone after your death.Personally i would love to have CFA behind my name after my death(if i pass CFAL3 next June).

#2

You can only do this if you set up a trust that is funded enough to pay the annual dues in perpetuity.

#3

^

lol…agree

#4

I think Inky is right. Perhaps someone should lobby CFAI to create a “deceased” member category.

#5

Well, I already have “I’m a CFA” tattood on my chest. Might as well put it on the tombstone.

#6

Make sure the CFA on your tombstone is not over sized or in bold or italic letters.

#7

Interesting. You may only need to be paid up as of your funeral or tombstone creation.

If you argue that the tombstone is a published document, you may not need to remove it after your membership has lapsed. For example, if you let your membership lapse, you are not required to find all publications that you put out when you were an active member and make sure that the CFA is struck from them.

If you publish a research result on your tombstone, that would secure your claim better. Numi, for example, might have “He really liked DDD” on his tombstone, and then whatever designations he has would be applicable, provided that they were eligible to be used at the time of publication.

#8

I will personally 3D print Numi’s tombstone. (Out of respect. Not because I want him dead.)

#9

I was thinking about this stuff too.

#10

I’m pretty sure Numi is a DDD fan, given all his motorboat comments.

#11

#12

If I don’t want to pay dues after my death for writing CFA after my name on my tombstone…then perhaps i can write “RR Passed CFA in D/mm/Yr” instead of " RR CFA" after my name…I think CFAI ethics allows it.

#13

“He died without paying his CFAI dues” ought to cover it. Disseminating simple factual information is allowed.

#14

#15

Mine will say:

Itera, CFA

Superior performance.

Yea. that’s right.

#16

I have no intention of ever dying.

#17

^

ethics violation.

#18

I think that was the point.

But what are they going to do? Kill him? The dude’s already dead! (or so we are supposed to think)

#19

#20

I will put on my tombstone : “The cFa has allowed me to produce superior performance”.

A bunch of ethical violations in that sentence but there’s nothing that the Institute can do about it. Now that’s the ultimate FU.