# Keith Richards claims to have snorted his father's ashes

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 4, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-claims-to-have-snorted-his-fathers-ashes/398663 "2007-04-04T02:27:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-claims-to-have-snorted-his-fathers-ashes/398663/1 "2007-04-04T02:27:01Z")

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[Of course he stepped on them with coke, but the thought was there](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/03/entertainment/e115910D72.DTL&type=entertainment):

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> “The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
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> “He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared,” he said. “… It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”

He is indeed still alive. [He looks like Jack Sparrow after a couple months in the desert](http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/04/04/dd_keithrichards134.jpg) on a series of horses with no names. He is, in fact, the long-awaited bridge between the pirate world and the zombie world and, quite likely, the unstoppable humanoid android world as well. He seems to take his eldritch nature in stride, with the occasional twinge of disappointment:

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> “I was No. 1 on the `who’s likely to die’ list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list,”

Falling off of lists or trees notwithstanding, his position as the Most Toxic Death Pool Poison is assured.

When he does finally kick off, he’s donating his body to science. Scientists expect the majority of his autonomic functions will cease a half-hour to forty-five minutes after his brain has been removed and allowed to remain pickled in its own fluids. He will still be alive enough to be elected Senator in Montana up to two weeks afterwards.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-claims-to-have-snorted-his-fathers-ashes/398663/2 "2007-04-04T02:29:13Z")

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There’s already a thread about this in Cafe Society–I’ll report the post for you. 😉