April 6, 2011
NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here. Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher who died in 1832, included a very bizarre stipulation in his will. He gave his body to his friend, Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith, [...]
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February 14, 2011
A few years ago, I read an article that reminded me of the extraordinary lengths parents will go to protect and provide for their children. It was about a woman named Melissa Bowmer, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. While she was preparing for her treatment, she learned that her four-year-old son had a [...]
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