At his death in April 1955, his brain was preserved & his ashes scattered in the Delaware River
He asked to be cremated, with his ashes spread in an 
unmarked ... and his ashes scattered at a secret spot on the Delaware River, ... 
the mid-19th century, when the techniques for preserving the brain... [DOC] [TLE] Albert Einstein - NNDB.com [PAR] He dropped out of his first high school, chaffing at the headmaster's ... he was 
hospitalized with an aortic aneurysm, which claimed his life on 18 April 1955.