Johnny Depp Bound For Boozy Burial

Johnny Depp has said that he wants mourners at his funeral to get drunk as a way of paying their last respects.

The star intends to have a dram of whiskey in place, an idea he got after building a cannon to blast friend Hunter S Thompson's ashes into the sky, in accordance with the writer's last wishes.

He told The Sun: "I could go in a whisky cask (at my funeral) and everyone can take a sip.

"Hunter had dreamed of a special way to go. He wanted to be fired from a cannon. Brilliant! So I built a huge cannon after his death in 2005 and fired his ashes into the sky."

Depp stars as Thompson's alter ego, Paul Kemp, in an adaptation of the novellist's tale 'The Rum Diary', which is on general release.

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