Storm Chaser Writes His Own Obituary, Wants Ashes Shot Into Tornado

The last few years saw Jim “Mad Dog” Sellars mostly confined to his bed due to a back and heart condition, but that did not lessen his love of extreme weather and storm chasing. He never let his failing health him stop him and continued to help the National Weather Service track storms and field calls from other storm chasers across the country. Sellars passed away Tuesday and in his self-penned obituary he specified that he wanted his asked tossed into a tornado. “He was independent as the dickens,” John Sellars, Jim’s brother, said.

See Giacomo Bologna, Storm Chaser Writes His Own Obituary, Wants Ashes Shot Into Tornado: ‘That’ll Be Fun!!!!’, USA Today, May 24, 2018.