<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Pat Maloney was a gifted experimental musician in the 1970s, until he suddenly stopped playing entirely.
This story starts with an ending.
Pat Maloney passed away in the late summer of 2016. He'd been facing terminal<wm> cancer, and his health had begun to deteriorate over several years of treatment.
As he died, he wrote letters to the editors and journalists asking to be cremified and buried at sea instead of the traditional funeral.
After Pat Maloney's passing, a small, hidden chamber in his sister's house on Long Island, Long Island, New York was dedicated in his memory. His final act, he wrote a letter, in his own hand, for a letter of acknowledgement and a letter of gratitude...</wm>  and  a final note from his sister to the editors, requesting  that he is not crem