![]() And if it's money you're worried about, don't worry, the first five words are free. Surely you must want to say something more than that. Ole was very well loved in the community. And the writer says, well, gee, Lena, you know, you lived together 50 years, you have children, you have grandchildren. And the writer says, well, tell me what you want to say, Lena. So, Lena goes down to the Minneapolis Star to report it to the obituary writer. KLEIN: In fact, a goldmine, it turns out, of jokes about death is Scandinavia. And there's nobody on the Riviera who's writing about this stuff. KLEIN: What we've noticed is that most of the philosophers of life and death come from Germany or Denmark, as in the case of Kierkegaard, France, as in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. ![]() CATHCART: Yeah, if you lived for an eternity there'd be a whole different set of questions and options for you. All of these philosophers that we explore in the book actually took the point of view that you can't really look at life and the meaning of life without looking at the fact that it ends. KLEIN: Well, it sort of turns out that philosophy about death is sort of an intro to philosophy of life. HANSEN: So, what is it that led you to explore death? Was it a natural offshoot of your Plato book? DANIEL KLEIN (Co-Author, "Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates"): Great to be here. It's called "Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates." Both former philosophy students are in our New York bureau. HANSEN: Thomas Cathcart, who has dropped out of various divinity schools, and Daniel Klein, who has written jokes for Flip Wilson and Lily Tomlin, have just published a new book, this time about the afterlife. A teacup? I came all the way up here to find the meaning of life and you tell me it's a teacup? The guru shrugs. Ah yes, the secret of life, the guru says. Oh, wise guru, the seeker says, I have come to ask you what the secret of life is. By the time he reaches the top he's full of cuts and bruises, but there is the guru sitting cross-legged in front of his cave. It's incredibly steep, and more than once he slips and falls. So, the seeker treks over hill and Delhi until he reaches the fabled mountain. THOMAS CATHCART (Co-Author, "Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates"): (Reading) A seeker has heard that the wisest guru in all of India lives atop India's highest mountain. Here's Cathcart with one about the meaning of life. When Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein last appeared on our program in 2007, they had just published their book, "Plato and a Platypus Walked Into a Bar." They told jokes to illustrate philosophy.
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