"Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You Dr Kevorkian" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vonnegut Kurt)

Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectac-

ularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. Isaac Asimov in

that essentially functionless capacity. At an A.H.A.

memorial service for my predecessor I said, "Isaac is

up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I

could have said to an audience of humanists. It rolled

them in the aisles. Mirth! Several minutes had to pass

before something resembling solemnity could be

restored.

I made that joke, of course, before my first near-

death experience—the accidental one.

So when my own time comes to join the choir


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invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will

say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really knows? I

could have dreamed all this.

My epitaph in any case? "Everything was beautiful.

Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so light, whatev-

er the heck it is that was going on.




Humanists, having received no credible information

about any sort of God, are content to serve as well as

they can, the only abstraction with which they have

some familiarity: their communities. They don't have

to join the A.H.A. to be one.