A psychedelic send-off for 'the godfather of LSD': Susan Sarandon at Burning Man

Susan Sarandon led a very belated funeral procession for her dear friend, the 'godfather of LSD' Timothy Leary, at Burning Man on Saturday. Clutching his ashes on the march into a makeshift church, the 67-year-old actress - who was wearing a bridal gown - said she had wanted to lay Leary to rest where he would be surrounded by revelers who had taken the psychedelic drug to honor his memory. 'I think he'd be so happy,' Sarandon said of Leary, who died and was cremated in 1996. 'I think he would have loved the chaos. He would have loved it. And all these people honoring him with LSD.' Sarandon led a march to bring his ashes into the 'church', which was built as an art installation at the festival, according to USA Today. The church was set alight on Saturday after the Burning Man statue was burned. Sarandon told USA Today that the festival struck her as the perfect resting place for Leary when she visited it in 2014. This year she returned with her share of his ashes to ceremoniously say goodbye, as she camped with a collection of artists and helped build a 'Totem Of Confessions' with California photographer Michael Garlington. Most of Leary's ashes were sent into outer space in 1997, but Sarandon kept some...more