Gravestone

Gravestones are generated when a player dies via any means except in the wilderness, safe activities (whereby no items are lost, hence rendering a gravestone useless) or at the corporeal beast. Players must also have dropped at least one item upon death in order to receive a gravestone. All of the player's items are kept safe under the gravestone until it is destroyed. This can occur either due to the gravestone's timer expiring or demolition by the player. Some items cannot be recovered from a gravestone, such as those listed here. If a gravestone collapses fully before a player retrieves his or her items, the items will become visible and can be picked up by anyone.

Without repairs or blessing, a gravestone will collapse after a certain period of time, depending on the type of gravestone purchased. One minute before collapse a gravestone will become broken, and 30 seconds prior to collapse it will become a collapsing gravestone. Although a gravestone will remain intact if the player logs out or loses connection, the timer will continue to count down and the gravestone will collapse at its regular time. Gravestones can last from 5 to 15 minutes, depending on the type purchased. The time remaining before the collapse of a player's gravestone will be displayed on their screen if they have a gravestone active. Once a type of gravestone has been selected and/or purchased, the player will continue to use that type of gravestone until they choose to change it.

Options
Gravestones have a number of options when right clicked. These options are Read, Repair, Bless and Demolish.
 * Read: Reveals the name of the player who died and, in some cases, how long ago. if a player read their own gravestone, they will a different message, stating "It looks like it'll survive another X minutes, Isn't there something a bit odd about reading your own gravestone?". If when reading a gravestone the message "The inscription is too unclear to read." is displayed, the player who owns the gravestone has already retrieved their items and no items will appear when the gravestone collapses. This message is also displayed if the player has logged out.
 * Repair: Allows a player with a prayer level of 2+ to extend the longevity of the gravestone by up to five minutes.
 * Bless: Allows a player with a prayer level of 70+ to extend the longevity of the gravestone by one hour after the gravestone had been set up. Attempting to bless your own gravestone will yield the message "The gods don't seem to approve of people attempting to bless their own gravestones."
 * Demolish: A player can demolish their gravestone to collect the items they dropped on death. When they do so, they will receive a message saying "It looks like it'll survive another X minutes. You demolish it anyway." If a player attempts to demolish another player's gravestone, they will receive the message "It would be impolite to demolish someone else's gravestone."

Types of gravestones
Players can choose a number of different gravestones for use by their character. In addition to having different appearances, some will also last longer before collapsing.

Available to all players
These gravestones can be purchased by donating to Father Aereck in the Lumbridge church. You must complete The Restless Ghost in order to purchase gravestones.

Available to Members
The following gravestones can be used by members who have completed the The Giant Dwarf quest as well as any of the specific prerequisites listed next to each gravestone type. The gravestones can be bought from Blasidar in East Keldagrim.

Trivia

 * "Requiescat in pace" is Latin for "Let him/her rest in peace"
 * Demolition of the Gravestone causes items underneath to appear for as long as your grave was blessed for before disappearance, and natural destruction removes the items immediately. Therefore, it may be a good idea to pick up items while the gravestone is still standing, and pick up the most valuable items if a gravestone is about to collapse.
 * A gravestone may not be repaired or blessed if the owner is logged out.
 * Gravestone types purchased by members can still appear in the free world, even if their subscription runs out. The timeout is also identical.
 * Graves of Jagex moderators cannot be repaired or blessed.
 * If you try to drop an item onto your gravestone, there will be a message saying, 'Surely you aren't going to drop litter on your own grave!'. Summoning a familiar while standing on gravestone will yield the same message.
 * Your gravestone is only present in one world. This means that if the game crashes or your internet is down while you try to return to your gravestone, you must return to the world you died in.
 * In the Demo version of RuneScape, players' names on graves are replaced by "Adventurer."
 * With the 1 February 2011 update, most gravestones had their time doubled or more. Before this update, the default gravestone lasted 3 minutes.