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Heidegger and a hippo, walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between, by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index

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Heidegger and a hippo

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by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between

A hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and immortality. That is, Death. The authors pry open the coffin lid on this one, looking at the Big D and also its prequel, Life, and its sequel, the Hereafter. Philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre have been wrestling with the meaning of death for as long as they have been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately, humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers by creating gags about dying. Death?s funny that way?it gets everybody?s attention

Surely there must be some mistake -- Just let your angst be your umbrella -- Death? the way to go! -- Heidegger-dog, ziggity-boom, what you do to me -- Spin your own immortality -- The eternal now -- Plato, the godfather of soul -- Heaven, a landscape to die for -- Tunnel vision -- The original knock-knock joke -- Beating death to the punch -- Immortality through not dying -- The end