Three Deaths
On November 22, 1963 during my 7th grade English class the intercom came on and the principal told the school that President Kennedy had been assassinated. The teacher wisely gave us a time of silence with a time for questions. There were none. We went home and began life in a new world.
About an hour earlier in Headington Quarry, a suburb of Oxford, England, C. S. Lewis’ brother brought him some afternoon tea. Lewis collapsed and died soon afterward. He had been in poor health for about six months.
Later that day in California the agnostic philosopher Aldous Huxley was dying of cancer and unable to speak. He wrote a note asking his wife to give him an injection of LSD. He requested a second dose an hour later. He died soon after the second injection.
The After Death Experience
Kreeft uses the timing of these deaths to construct a conversation between these men after death. Lewis’ traditional Christianity, Kennedy’s secular Catholicism and Huxley’s agnosticism are contrasted in a debate about the core issues of life.
It is a fun read… well-written… and a good interaction of positions commonly held in our world. I recommend you find time for this book.
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