God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian (7 page)

Lincoln was shot by a two-bit actor who was exercising his right to bear arms. Like Isaac and Uncle

Lincoln is up in Heaven now.

So this is Kurt Vonnegut, WNYC's now emeritus reporter on the afterlife, signing off on paper this time.

Ta ta and adios. Or, as Saint Peter said to me, with a sly wink, when I told him I was on my last round-trip to Paradise: "See you later, Alligator." K.V.

November 8, 1998 and May

1999

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on my

experience

this morning, I found out what becomes of people who die while they're still babies. Finding that out was accidental, since I'd gone down the blue tunnel to o

interview Dr. Mary D. Ainsworth, who died last March

age eighty-five, in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was a retired but

developmental

psychologist.

Dr.

extravagantly favorable obituary in the
NewYork Times
said she had done more research than anyone on the long-term effects of bonding between a mother and an infant during the first year of o

alternatively, the absentminded lack of bonding. She

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