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Bright Idea Former college design professor Don Glickman was 93 and dying when he and his daughter discussed how he wanted to be memorialized, The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review reported on Feb. 9. Leah Glickman said her father faced his fate head-on: “We never used words in our house like ‘he passed,’” she said.
“We said, ‘he died.’ No one gets out of here alive.” She and her dad came up with a clever idea: Send out postcards to family and friends, announcing his death.
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