Do Human Beings Survive Death? [1957]

PAPER 15 WAS published in The Sunday Times under the slightly different title of “Do Men Survive Death”, 13 Jan. 1957, p. 10 (B&R C57.02). It appeared as the second instalment of a twelve-part series about “The Great Mystery”. In asking Russell for a contribution, the newspaper’s editor, H.V.Hodson, had remarked that the project “would obviously be incomplete without a worthy statement of the humanist and rationalist point of view…” (10 Oct. 1956). Lay or clerical perspectives from the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist and Islamic faiths were represented as well. Among these contributors was the Abbot of Downside, Christopher Butler, with whom Russell debated the same question on BBC radio (43).