In keeping with his final wishes, Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes will be blasted out of a cannon. The gun-loving writer will go out with a bang from a cannon mounted inside a 16-metre-high (53ft) sculpture of his trademark “gonzo” fist – a clenched hand on an upthrust forearm with the word gonzo written on it. “It’s expensive, but worth every penny,” his wife, Anita Thompson, said. “I’d like to have several explosions. He loved explosions.”