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Quoted from Unix World, November, 1989:

The grim reality is that every life ends with a death. Funeral homes exist to make that fact a little more tolerable. ... UNIX can help here, too. The Gordon Funeral Chapel, for instance, does much of its accounting on an AT class, multiuser machine running XENIX. ...

. .. For example, Gordon says his system has to be able to classify two kinds of customer, "at-need," those who are actually deceased, and "pre-need," those who have made arrangements for funerals while still living. Moreover, the system has to be able to convert one kind of customer to the other as the need arises...

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