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Friday, April 6, 2007 05:35 PM
Original article: No sympathy for the devil

Ashes, Ashes...

My late father was recently dumped into the Missouri River.

Yeah, it was his ashes, showered from a small plane, as per his very instructions. You can do that with ashes, in our culture, but you definitely cannot do that with an unincinerated corpse. There are truly distinct differences between the two forms of remains, in how we regard them, handle them, and dispose of them.

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