The late Isaac Asimov, a great writer of science fiction,
Was also Honorary President of
the American Humanist Association.
We humanists try to behave as honorably
as we can, without any expectation
of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
I said at an AHA memorial service for Asimov,
“Isaac is looking down on us from Heaven now.”
It was the funniest thing I could have said
in that particular company.
They were started,
But then they laughed and laughed.
Who would be so mean as to wake up Isaac,
or any other dead person, for that matter,
For eternal bliss?
And yet I, although a humanist,
would love to arouse Adolf Hitler
for an orgasm lasting
A trillion years.