About 25 percent of the 2.3 million Americans who died last year were cremated, a number that s expected to reach 40 percent ten years from now. The reasons for this are many. For one, it s cheaper. For another, it s environmentally sound. And cost a lot less than the shoes which came in it.
People do interesting things with cremated remains.
Others bury them, which seems to defeat the purpose. Still others scatter the ashes in a loved one s favorite place. Sometimes, though, even these plans go awry. Roy Rogers was at the opening of one of his eponymous restaurants introducing the Trigger Burger and he said, When I die I hope they skin me out and put me up on Trigger. So imagine my disappointment when I went to the Roy Rogers Museum and Trigger s saddle was empty.