On the first anniversary of her death, in December 1998, Tal Ben-Shahar published "Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny Hicks", in which he wove together his and Hicks' year-long correspondence with his own philosophical musings. The book is an extended postmodern "conversation" between two seekers journeying intensely together in a quest for meaning and purpose. It takes its title from an article Hicks submitted to "The Straits Times" just days before her death, which ever after took on a hauntingly prophetic air. In it she wrote: "The brevity of life on earth cannot be overemphasized. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side—because it is not ... Heaven can wait, but I cannot". In an earlier "Strait Times" piece that memorialised her grandmother, Hicks confessed that she believed in life after death.