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Out with a Bang
- Authors
- Name
- Karthik Narasimhan
- @nkarthik
Hunter S Thompson, colorful writer who led a life most bizarre, wanted a denoument no less bizarre. He shot himself to death, and then wanted his remains “blasted into the sky.”
His faithful wife assembled a few people together Saturday for a morbid ceremony where a
[…] a combination of fireworks and the writer's ashes were blasted into the sky from the top of a 153ft tower in a series of red, white, blue and green flashes.
Cannonization, alright. I've heard rumors that he'll be called Sainnt Thompson from now on.
Through the Indpendent.