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Gilda · 11-29-2005, 09:50 PM

I'm an organ donor (talk to you loved ones about this, please) and I hope to have my remains cremated. Where to put the ashes, though, hmmm.

The best I've ever seen was Mark Gruenwald, a writer and editor at Marvel Comics. I know what you're thinking, Gilda, making a comic book reference? You've got to be kidding me.

Anyway, Gruenwald was the writer of a 12 issue series in the mid 1980's called Squadron Supreme. It was based on analogues of the Justice League characters in an alternate world where they decide fighting bad guys in tights isn't enough, and decide to take over the country and turn it into a utopia. Squadron Supreme was Gruenwald's favorite piece of his own work.

He had requested that he be creamated when he died, and his acses mixed in with the printing ink of a comic book, so then editor Bob Harras did just that, having Gruenwald's ashes mixed in with the ink used to print the first edition of the trade paperback for Squadron Supreme. Fans who bought that first trade literally own a piece of the author.

For me, I think I'd prefer that my ashes go somewhere meaningful to Grace, but my choice would be to have them scattered into the ocean just outside her parents' home in Hawaii. It's where I remember the two of us being happiest together.

Gilda

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Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	I'm an organ donor (talk to you loved ones about this, please) and I hope to have my remains cremated. Where to put the ashes, though, hmmm. The best I've ever seen was Mark Gruenwald, a writer and editor at Marvel Comics. I know what you're thinking, Gilda, making a comic book reference? You've got to be kidding me. Anyway, Gruenwald was the writer of a 12 issue series in the mid 1980's called Squadron Supreme. It was based on analogues of the Justice League characters in an alternate world where they decide fighting bad guys in tights isn't enough, and decide to take over the country and turn it into a utopia. Squadron Supreme was Gruenwald's favorite piece of his own work. He had requested that he be creamated when he died, and his acses mixed in with the printing ink of a comic book, so then editor Bob Harras did just that, having Gruenwald's ashes mixed in with the ink used to print the first edition of the trade paperback for Squadron Supreme. Fans who bought that first trade literally own a piece of the author. For me, I think I'd prefer that my ashes go somewhere meaningful to Grace, but my choice would be to have them scattered into the ocean just outside her parents' home in Hawaii. It's where I remember the two of us being happiest together. Gilda __________________ I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that. ~Steven Colbert