title: Please Lord, Don't Let Me Die Last: a Philosopher's Free Verse on Death
author: Steven Kooyers DC
description: Dr. Steve Kooyers is a chiropractor, maintaining a private practice in Northern California since 1977. Married to Jo, also in 1977, they have raised two children to adulthood. He enjoys archery, fishing and wildlife photography. Currently he has also authored a book titled; "Hello Chiropractic, Goodbye, Colic" which offers readers an effective, gentle method to eradicate Colic.
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  Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else? Someone died in an explosion
  orchestrated by Runciters business competitors. And, indeed, its the kingly
  Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines. But in the meantime, his
  mourning employees are receiving bewildering and sometimes scatological
  messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping in ways that
  suggest that their own time is running out. Or already has.
  
  
  Philip K. Dicks searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation (the latter
  available in a convenient aerosol spray) is tour de force of paranoiac menace
  and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for
  their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.
  
  
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    * Ubik
      *     *     *     * [Chapter 1](index_split_003.xhtml#TOC_idp465344)
      * [Chapter 2](index_split_004.xhtml#TOC_idm736448)
      * [Chapter 3](index_split_005.xhtml#TOC_idp2637504)
      * [Chapter 4](index_split_006.xhtm