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Which set of lines from "The Cremation of Sam McGee" most clearly suggests a possible theme for the poem?

Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire; Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher.

He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess; And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid...though my lips , in my heart how I cursed that load. O God! how I loathed the thing.

Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no; then he says with a sort of : "So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains."