When I die, blast me into the sky

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’”
-Hunter S Thompson

Sometimes people speak in hyperbole or employ metaphors to prove a point. Not Hunter Thompson.

He fully lived this quote. For Hunter’s funeral his ashes were placed in a cannon and then shot up into the air mid firework show. Johnny Depp bankrolled the whole thing!
 Yes, that happened and here’s the video to prove it: