After all (depending on how charitable your view of your fellow man’s chances of getting in), heaven should by now have quite a crowd, and even among those you actually knew in your own lifetime, putting names with faces can be a challenge

Age is the money shot in an obit. Followed by cause of death as a close second. Peter A. Hempel My father, Carl G. Hempel, was a professor of philosophy of science (his specialty was how to establish scientific proof), and among non-specialists in the field he is especially known for the Raven Paradox. (Google it and you will find millions of hits.) The underlying question was, what kind of evidence would help prove a hypothesis? In the case of his example, what kind of

If, like the snail, you carry your house with you, you will feel secure, but you will always be slow – and the salt on the roads will kill you.

The picture-perfect ending. Kung Fu, complicated love, and death from a technique known only to an inner elite.

The court ruled that having sex is considered an essential part of a attaining a reasonable quality of life and that, as a result, people have the right to assistance in paying for potency drugs such as Viagra.

Cezanne's, "We live in a rainbow of chaos," and Jean-Paul Sartre's, "Hell is other people," are among the philosophical ideas to be recited by Tube drivers.