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Except perhaps literally. Madalyn suffered from chronic heart disease and diabetes and, like many activist atheists, feared that at her demise, religious relatives might commandeer her body and give it a Christian burial (or, as Kerns remembers her putting it, "stick a crucifix up my a__"). Faced with a sudden health crisis, the matriarch could have arranged to die unmolested and given Jon and Robin permission to jump ship. Such a blessing might have been welcome. "Jon told me numerous times that he was pretty fed up with the whole goddam thing," says Via. "If he had the opportunity...
...that the republic chooses to renew itself in the dead of winter. From George Washington's first Inaugural in late April 1789 the ceremony was pushed back to early March, and from F.D.R. to the present it has been locked in this hard, white burial vault of a month. The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday. The government bundled up before the fluted columns like an ice sculpture at a wedding--an impressive, preposterous construction molded to take one's mind off the reality that...
...burial will be private. A memorial service will be held in Memorial Church at a time to be announced...
...could, that is, if scientists ever get a chance to study it in detail. Unless a judge intervenes, the bones will be turned over to the local Umatilla Indian tribe by the end of the month for immediate burial. Says Umatilla spokesman Armand Minthorn: "Our tradition says once a body goes into the ground, that's where it stays." Under the Native American Graves Protection Act of 1990, museums and scientists must give Native American remains back to the tribes they came from. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the banks of the Columbia...
TIME calls them "barely visible blobs of protein." The fertility clinic calls them "living cells." A Roman Catholic Cardinal calls for a "decent burial." The Vatican newspaper calls it "a prenatal massacre." The parents who created these embryos don't call to claim them. The whole situation calls for a rational definition of the word human. And until we can settle on this, I call it nonsense. JOHN BRODSKY, M.D. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania...