Below is a paragraph from Wikipedia on the death of Thomas Paine. Doesn't it seem a little sad that one of the great intellectuals of this country was so ignored at his death? What are your feelings about this man? It seems some consider 'Common Sense' his only work worth mentioning. Or maybe 'rights of man'. What say you?Derided by the public and abandoned by his friends on account of his religious views, Paine died at 59 Grove Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, on June 8, 1809. Although the original building is no longer there, the present building has a plaque noting that Paine died at this location. At the time of his death, most US newspapers reprinted the obituary notice from the New York Citizen, which read in part: "He had lived long, did some good and much harm." Only six mourners came to his funeral, two of whom were black, most likely freedmen. A few years later, the agrarian radical William Cobbett dug up and shipped his bones back to England. The plan was to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but the bones were still among Cobbett's effects when he died over twenty years later. There is no confirmed story about what happened to them after that, although down the years various people have claimed to own parts of Paine's remains such as his skull and right hand.