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This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid, and sometimes just scary stuff. Listener discretion is

advised. If you're considering cremation as an alternative to

traditional burial, we might be able to help you take things up a notch. Get ready for an

explosive 30 Morbin minutes. This is the podcast where we cover topics, people, places, ideas, and history of a morbid macab, dark, and downright grisly nature.

I'm Elise Willems.

And I'm Jessica Vasami.

On August 20, 2005, around 250 friends and family of Hunter S. Thompson gathered at the

Gonzo journalist and author's home in Woody Creek, Colorado to pay their final respects.

Thompson had died seven months earlier in February and had his body cremated. Now was the big moment,

the spreading of his ashes. His family and friends had decided to send Thompson off with a bang, literally.

The writer's ashes were put inside fireworks, which were then set off from 150 feet above

from a tower that was modeled after Thompson's logo, a clenched fist,

made symmetrical with two thumbs rising from the hilt of a dagger.

Okay, I feel like it says a lot about a person. It does. And so the fireworks containing Hunter S.

Thompson's remains exploded in the night sky bursting into red, blue, silver, and green display that

lasted around 10 minutes.

Thompson's wife Anita said that it was only fitting since the late writer loved explosions.

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