Mr. Egan, in an obituary he wrote weeks ago that was posted on his law firm's Web site after his death, said that he had arranged for his ashes to be spread at Yucca Mountain, in Southern Nevada, with the words "radwaste buried here only over my dead body."
Mr. Egan's wife, Patricia, said by telephone on Friday that Mr. Egan had been cremated, adding, "We are going to do it."

I still remember riding the 7F from SFO, one rainy winter's night long ago, with a passel of convivial engineering geologists en route to a conference, and how they so generously entertained my novice-on-fire conjectures about the obscenity that has long been the federal government's plans for Yucca Mountain.
Later, there was whiskey.
Later still, a shift from somewhat-rarified social science shenanigans to an "emphasis on geography".