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Clock Watcher

Although Malcolm Eccles, 50, died, his wife still has him around. At his suggestion (“Malcom was as daft as a brush,” his widow says), the London, England, woman had a glass-blower make her an egg timer using Malcolm’s cremated remains for the sand. He’s kept in the kitchen. Now, he can “help me and it would be a nice way of remembering him,” Brenda Eccles said. (Reuters) ...In death just like in life: he lasts exactly three minutes.


Publication Date: 27 July 1997

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