I just had a strange vision of my funeral...

[Alden]

The idea of laying a bottle in the casket is too sad. To me it comes off as, "And there's the one that did it to him!" If the bottle's full, it done got to me before I could get to it, and that's bad news. If it's empty, at least we killed each other off in the struggle, I suppose; but still, these are not images I want associated with my death.

Give me a utilitarian burial. Naked in a wooden box, let the bourbon left over in my body feed the thirst of the earth as it absorbs me.

Oh I understand completely. Many a good man has been done in by the Demon Rum. I don't seem to have the "alcoholic gene" as I can control my consumption pretty easily, and I don't really want a bottle in my casket, in fact, I would rather be cremated.

I wonder if drinker's bodies burn any faster, or hotter?