Celebrating Hunter S. Thompson's Suicide

Blasting Hunter S. Thompson from a cannon seems appropriate both for those who loved him and those who hated him.

From The Courier-Journal:

A meadow near Aspen, Colo., is being prepped with a Statue of Liberty-sized tower containing a cannon that will pepper the sky next month with the cremated remains of Hunter S. Thompson, a Louisville native.

A Beverly Hills, Calif., events planner hired by actor Johnny Depp -- a native of Owensboro, Ky. -- is pulling together details of the private send-off that will culminate in Thompson's ashes being blasted from the top of a 150-foot temporary tower behind Thompson's Owl Farm home in Woody Creek near Aspen. The event will take place Aug. 20, the six-month anniversary of Thompson's suicide.

Although I have serious reservations regarding the celebration of suicide, I could be placated if Johnny Depp crawled into the cannon with Thompson's ashes. Depp may have retracted his anti-American comments, but I believe he only did it because people got mad and he knew it would affect his popularity at the box office.