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Monday May 12,2008

of these devices were placed in production.

by Jon N Austin

When the Museum staff contacted the Marsellus Casket Company prior to its closing in May, the staff never expected that a request for a portion of that historic firm’s past for the collection would also lead to the acquisition of objects that had been exhibited in the museum at the former National Foundation of Funeral Service in Evanston, Illinois.

If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, Beware the Unitarians

by Sue Simon

The bursting of one of the many out-of-control malignant tumors in my 43-year-old nephew's chest killed him the Sunday before Christmas. Blinded for years by ignored diabetes, feeding tubed and tracheotomied since late 2000, and judged "terminal" just three weeks earlier, his death came as no surprise.