Thorstein Veblen, en känd norsk-amerikansk professor i nationalekonomi och sociologi (1857-1929), hade en syn på vad som skulle hända när han dog som jag känner stor personlig sympati för:

It is my wish, in case of death, to be cremated, if it can conveniently be done, as expeditiously and inexpensively as may be, without ritual or ceremony of any kind; that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature, be set up in my memory or name in any place or at any time; that no obituary, memorial, portrait, or biography of me, nor any letters written to or by me be printed or published, or in any way reproduced, copied or circulated.

Den enda modifikation jag skulle vilja göra rör det där med havet: askan efter mig kan läggas precis varsomhelst.