Thompson ashes ready to blast off into eternity

THE ashes of the US writer Hunter S Thompson are to be fired from a tower the height of the Statue of Liberty in a ceremony at his Colorado home today befitting his eccentric and controversial life.

Thompson ashes ready to blast off into eternity

The actor Johnny Depp will fire the cannon to spread the ashes of the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, who shot himself dead on February 20 at his home near Aspen.

Thompson was 67 and had been in failing health.

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