But I do not believe that when it's time to cash in the chips, I will share
the same eternal fate (worm food) as, let's say, Charlie Manson or Adolf Hitler.
His core doctrine of amor fati, love of
fate, found its supreme expression in the myth of the
eternal recurrence, the ultimate spiritual ordeal set forth in The Gay Science (1882) and amplified in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 - 1885) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886): if a demon were to perch on your shoulder and tell you your life would repeat itself throughout eternity, exactly the
same in every detail, would you rejoice or despair at the thought?
C. S. Lewis speculated on the
eternal fate of animals in The Problem of Pain, suggesting that at least tame animals might enter heaven through their relationship with humans, in the
same way that humans do through their relationship with Christ.