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== [[Music]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is [
{{quote| "Oh, bury me not", and his voice failed there<br />
But we took no heed to his dying prayer<br />
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** The best part? His ashes were mixed into fireworks. [[Crazy Awesome|Yeah.]]
* Christopher Titus' dad. His last wishes included being buried in a cardboard box, charging for attendance to his funeral (except for the ladies), allow everyone who he ever pissed off in his life to step up and piss on his body (to the tune of "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" by Willie Nelson), and after cremation wished to have his ashes put into a douche bottle (hot water bottle) find a hooker and "run me through one last time." In the end, he is put in a rental coffin with a cardboard box lining, made about $2,200 at the door, Titus is the only one to claim to have peed on him and while they found a hooker, they couldn't quite go through with the last act so they spread his ashes around a casino floor at Lake Tahoe and various Victoria Secret's dressing rooms.
* There is a widespread story that the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope wished to have himself designated the [
* Del Close, the great improv comedy actor/teacher, wanted his skull to go to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago so that he could play [[Hamlet|Yorick]] (or any spooky-scene-setting [[Cow Tools]]) into eternity. On his deathbed he made a friend promise to make it happen, but he didn't put anything in writing, and [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/09/061009ta_talk_friend in the end she had to substitute one she'd bought from an anatomical supply company]. His real skull was cremated along with the rest of him.
* Pianist [
* [[Frederick the Great]] of Prussia stipulated that he be buried in a simple grave at Sanssouci palace, next to his dogs. His successor decided that his was not on and had him buried in the vault of the Garnisonkirche in Potsdam. At the end of [[World War 2]], the coffin was taken to Hohenzollern castle in Baden-Württemberg. He was finally buried where he wanted after the reunification of Germany.
* An unusual but fitting tribute: before he died, [[Marvel Comics]] writer Mark Gruenwald made arrangements to have his ashes mixed with the printing ink for the initial run of a trade paperback collection of his groundbreaking mini-series ''[[Squadron Supreme]]''.
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