TimesDispatch.com | A lesson in dying: " lesson in dying
BY BILL LOHMANN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERMay 30, 2005
Philanthropist Thomas Cannon
BOB BROWN/RTD
Thomas Cannon sat in his living room eating a cheeseburger and listening to his funeral.
The self-described poor man's philanthropist, known for doling out $1,000 checks to strangers on a postal clerk's salary, recorded his own earthly sendoff several years ago so he wouldn't have to rely on someone else to get it right.
He dug out the cassette tape Friday afternoon and played it for a pair of visitors."
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