The last wish of Hunter S Thompson, the 'enfant terrible' of American literature, was to have his ashes shot from a cannon. His request has been fulfilled.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article307418.ece

But Judy Sunski, who drives a school bus in Aspen and was this weekend visiting a friend's farm in Woody Creek, said she had little time for Thompson or his celebration of drink and drug binges. Neither was she impressed by the circumstances of his suicide, shooting himself as he sat at his typewriter only moments after hanging up the phone to his wife. "I don't agree in glorifying all that," she said, adding that she considered Thompson something of a trouble-maker and that on half dozen or so occasions she had seen in the local tavern that he was causing bother. "I don't know, I only saw him five or six times. Maybe he only caused trouble on those five or six times."

Can anyone tell me why they interviewed this numbskull? Not impressed by his suicide? oh that's a real shame.