I find this very cool (and by the way, I would prefer to be cremated myself):
Man unapologetic for spreading ashes at Linc
Associated Press
PHOENIX -- An Arizona man arrested after spreading his mother's ashes at a Philadelphia Eagles game says he has no regrets and is prepared to suffer the consequences of his actions.
Chip Noteboom, 44, returned home Tuesday and said mothers at Sky Harbor International Airport here embraced him and attorneys called and offered legal services.
"I wasn't trying to make a big deal about it," said Noteboom, who owns a bar in the Phoenix area. "I just wanted to do it for my mom."
Noteboom, a native of Doylestown, Pa., said he waited until the second quarter of last Sunday's game to make his way from an upper-level section down to field level at Lincoln Financial Field.
He said he waited just before the kickoff after halftime to run onto the field with the plastic bag of his mother's ashes.
"I thought it was best to just say a 'Hail Mary' and release them while I was running," he said. "It was pretty exhilarating and I could hear the crowd cheering."
Once the bag was empty, Noteboom dropped it, made the sign of the cross, fell to his knees and to the ground before police arrested him just short of the 50-yard line.
Noteboom said police detained him for 19 hours while they questioned him, making sure the substance was his mother's ashes.
Noteboom was charged with misdemeanor trespassing and is scheduled to appear in a Philadelphia court on Dec. 27.
He said his mother, who died of emphysema in January 2005, shortly before the Eagles' Super Bowl appearance, was born and raised in Philadelphia, attended Penn State, and was a huge Eagles fan.
His family moved to Arizona in 1972 and due to health problems, Noteboom said his mother hadn't been back to Philadelphia, or an Eagles game, since then.
Noteboom said he got the idea to spread them on the field when he visited Philadelphia last week.
"I don't know if that's what she would have wanted, but I know right now that she is absolutely smiling down at me from ear to ear," he said.
From ESPN.com
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