They reprint bawdy photos of you from way back, and distribute them to all attending, laughing right above your open grave.

Those not on handmade rafts and boats, walk the entire distance and cheer those water-bound on at every single bridge.

Your friends take turns carrying your casket for more than a kilometer in the biting bitter cold, chanting and singing songs.

Your friends travel your coffin by home made raft, with your portrait on it, setting sail in a veritable flotilla for more than an hour to reach the cemetery.

Debra Solomon - Those not on handmade rafts and boats, walk the entire distance and cheer the boats on at every…

Throughout the day there are somewhat equal portions of tears and laughter.

Your friends raise a ~ 20 meter banner with pictures documenting your career. The group pullies it up through electrical wires amidst much chaos which everyone enjoys.

Shamans pray for you.

Your old poet buddies dance like dervishes at one of the many funeral day happenings.

Begin with flames, explosions, fire extinguishers, and masked men in red leather aprons.

The Intimate Family Sendoff

Debra Solomon - When Grams died, my family celebrated her right then and there with a memorial which accidentally…

The Great Sendoff

Debra Solomon - The festive funeral of Dutch Fluxus artist Robert Jasper Grootveld on March 7th, 2009

Absence makes the civil disobedience grow fonder

Debra Solomon - Not all things worth communicating fit the format of absence. Some of our most ubiquitous…