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

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    Blackstone Publishing, 2009
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Contributor: Gardner, Grover; Weiner, Tom
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2009
    Summary:

    This is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality, Death, the Big D. Humorists have kept pace with philosophers by creating gags about dying. Death's funny that way: it gets everybody's attention.

    Contents:
    • Surely there must be some mistake
    • Just let your angst be your umbrella
    • Death? the way to go!
    • Heideggerty-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.
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    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781441700094, 1441700099