David Koch, a noted and notorious conservative billionaire activist, has shuffled off his mortal coil.
I thought I would be vindictive, and wish him eternal damnation. But I find myself curiously in a more generous state, perhaps from seeing all that good PBS nature and other programming funded by his foundation, and his other philanthropy. So I will cut him a little slack.
Instead of flinging him into a hell of everlasting torment, Saint Peter sends him off to a series of schools, just as in our mundane military, and then an extended probationary internship, with a final decision down the road .
First Koch is trained as a wind turbine tech and solar panel installer; then as an oil spill cleanup worker cleansing birds and beaches. Koch is sent back to earth for some number of years to perform in those capacities.
If he does the job and learns something meaningful about the environment, he is brought back to the pearly gates for another course, to become a city transit bus driver. Back to earth.
Over a century or more, Koch gets more training and more experience. As a food preparer and server in a homeless shelter, a tree planter at a desert’s edge, an orderly in an inner city hospital, a nurse in an orphanage in Syria.
Maybe if he does well in all these new careers, he will be allowed to work in voter registration.
He wasted one life. Give him a second chance?