Immortal

The book I recently read is Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.

This tiny paperback is the follow-on of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar that I read last year. (See http://ccszeto.blogspot.hk/2011/04/platypus.html) Similar to many famous movies, sequel does not do as well. Although the theories of eternal life and heaven are described with crystal clarify in this book, it lacks the zest - or the sense of humor that makes the Platypus a bestseller.

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To me, the most impressive story about heaven and eternal life is Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鐵路999) by Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士):

Tetsuro Hoshino (星野鐵郎) is a boy who seeks a robotic body. He meets the representative from a planet far away, and boards the train to get an immortal life free. When Tetsuro reaches the destiny, however, he realizes that in exchange for an eternal life, he has to use all his time to fight for the owner of that planet.

Vatican should treat Matsumoto as Copernicus.