Late one night, after perhaps a few too many drinks, I reached an agreement with one of my best friends. With a handshake, he granted me exclusive rights to his body when he dies. Although his parents are unaware of this pact, my future duties entail loading his remains into the back of a truck and leaving his thin frame in one of the many fields that make up his family’s sprawling bicentennial farm.
Has the digital age made cemeteries obsolete?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT;
updated 5:59 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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