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Article: Science fiction author buried
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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Westcountry-born science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke wanted to
be remembered as someone who "never grew up and did not stop
growing", his adopted family said at his funeral.
Mr Clarke was buried on Saturday in a brief, secular funeral
according to his wishes at the general cemetery in Colombo, the
capital of his adopted country, Sri Lanka.
The Ekanayake family, with whom the Somerset-born author lived in
the final decades of his life, cried as his coffin was lowered into
the grave.
His brother, Fred Clarke, and other family members were among the
mourners. Some fans and followers also sprinkled soil into the