Vonnegut was extremely popular at the time because, hippies, drugs, etc. I enjoyed it, if I can remember that long ago.
Something something death and memory?
I have not read it, but isn't one of the insights is not suffer and hurt ourselves when we try to mourn the dead for they exist outside of time and space exists outside of time, but we are living inside the time or something like that?
Such a key insight but also almost impossible to do, it is like trying not to flinch when someone uses a rubber mallet and taps your knee. Is this really helpful or is this advice even more harmful than just letting nature take its course? Even if space exists outside of time, we are still trapped here on the inside of the hour glass.
Something something something?
Is there a star trek episode I can watch or do I have to read the book? (Looks up the amount of pages) ... oh it is only 288 pages