God's Death: Kurt Vonnegut Has Left the Planet

God has really died this time. And, as his Mother Night so gently urged us to know, "When you're dead, you're dead." That's all.

We can console ourselves in the Hocus Pocus and other tricks or treats he left us. Then move along, re-minding one's self to try never forget to always, "Just be kind."

-- Comment originally left at http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/post!post.jspa, ICT.06h21.Fri.13.Apr.2007.AD

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Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

Vonnegut was a cult figure with students in the 1960s and 1970s Vonnegut interview One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.