Death and taxes

Merold Westphal has a book entitled God, Guilt, and Death (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987), which my thoughts turn to this time of year. The only thing missing from the title is, of course, taxes. The full title of Westphal's ominous-titled and otherwise excellent book is God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion. It really is a good book. I've assigned it repeatedly as a supplementary text in philosophy of religion classes, along with more traditional historically and/or analytically-oriented texts. But perhaps -- just perhaps -- he should reconsider making it 'God, Guilt, Death and Taxes' in a future edition.