A SCOTTISH professor has decided to go out with a bang – by paying to have his ashes turned into a giant firework.
Professor Joe Goldblatt has already decided to donate his body to medical science.
But the Texan-born academic has decided to go a step further.
Mr Goldblatt, executive director of the International Centre for the Study of Planned Events, at Queen Margaret University, says he plans to turn his death into the "ultimate event".
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