The author of The left hand path He left everything well tied up before he died. And it is that, at 86 years old and with a heart condition, he sensed that that day he was not far away. It happened last Monday in the town of Castilfrío de la Sierra, his refuge in Soria, where he received a Christian burial as he wished.
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And precisely for this reason, because Sánchez Dragon he dreamed of eternal rest, he left samples of semen, teeth and hair in a safe before he died. The reason? He did not want the same thing to happen to Dalí, about whom he wrote an article in 2017, when they ordered his exhumation for a paternity test. The writer believed that he had a good chance of having children that he would not have recognized, since he boasted of having lived in ten different countries and having enjoyed sex freely in all of them. “He thought that he should leave samples with his DNA outside the coffin so that if one day someone claimed to be his son they would not have to corrupt his corpse, because he wanted, he said, to rest in peace forever,” he said. a friend.
In recent years, Sánchez Dragó confessed a growing curiosity about death (“It does not scare me, it attracts me”) and had made his last wishes clear: “I have bought my grave for 15,000 pelas,” he said at a conference in Marbella. “I have it ready there in the cemetery and I want to open it now. I want them to bury me in Castilfrío.” In it he revealed that he had picked up an abandoned coffin that now decorated his office and that he used to meditate on, and that he had thought of his epitaph, a variation on Groucho Marx’s: “Excuse me for not getting up “.