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Substantial Disruption

Thinking Outside the Box

Table in foreground. Salad bowl labeled "Aunt Bessie's Salad." Hand sticks out of the vegetables. An open window looks over a golf course with tombstones.
Why stop at mulch? Combine golf courses and graveyards as efficient land use.

Remembering Loved Ones with Mulch and Divots

“When I die I don’t want to be buried, but I don’t want to be cremated either,” wrote the late George Carlin in Napalm and Silly Putty. “I want to be blown up. Put me on a pile of explosives and blow me up. Or throw my body from a helicopter. That would be fun. One stipulation: wherever I land, you have to leave me there. Even if it’s the mayor’s lawn. Just let me lie there. But keep the dogs away.”

I once read a New York mobster’s last will and testament. It opened with a lengthy description of his mausoleum. He was particular about the size, materials, design, and so on. I suspect he agonized more over the preservation of his remains than the disposition of his assets.

Humans have long obsessed about the after-death. Not life-after-death, which is different, but death and its initial complication: how to dispose of the remains. From pyramids to crematoriums, we have imagined numerous options for our final planting place.

Flowers for Fani

When Cupid’s Arrow Becomes A Boomerang

Did Nathan Wade buy Fani Willis flowers? Were they delivered to her residence, or centered on a table in a fashionable restaurant? Did Nathan and Fani escape the stressful reality of their lives in a romantic escape to California wine country and a Caribbean beach?

Or was it all strictly business?

Jocelyn Wade, Nathan’s estranged wife, says it was business – frisky business. In a court filing dated January 19, 2024, she refers to Fani as “her husband’s paramour.” She bases her assertion on plane tickets, cruise tickets, and hotel receipts. The ball is in Fani and Nathan’s court to prove there was nothing romantic about the trips, despite their exotic locales.