The Keith Richards School of Ash Disposal.
To Snort or not to Snort?
So after spending months of researching the unique and at times mind blowing ways people are disposing of their ashes these days (see our Ashes section), we thought we’d cultivated a rather thick skin when it came to Ash Disposal.
However, jaws dropped to the floor when Keith Richards of Rolling Stones fame admitted to snorting a cocktail of coke and the ashes of his father Bert, up his nose.
“The strangest thing I’ve ever had to snort -my father - I snorted my father. I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.” He told the magazine, NME.
Okay, granted Keith has now retracted his claim, but he’s fooling no one at MFF. Part of us are a little endeared that the veteran rocker loved his dad so much that he just wanted to be close to him …
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April 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I hate to admit that I too have had the ashes of a loved one up my nasal passages. When my granddad died a couple of years ago, me and the family stood at his favourite bird watching spot and took it in turns to scatter some of his ashes. Now when it came to my turn to scatter, a great gust of wind blew granddad into my face. I went one step further than Keith Richards, as I not only inhaled Grandy but consumed a bit of him too…now that’s Rock and Roll.
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Kevin, Glasgow
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I can just see the commercials now. Instead of “this is your brain on drugs” they’ll be throwing an egg in the pan and saying “this is what your brain looks like when you snort your dead father’s ashes. Because stupid people do drugs, but it takes a special kind of idiot to snort your Dad!”
April 24th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Keith Richards is the GURU of sex drugs and rock n’ roll