The first person Eddie meets in Heaven is the blue man (aka Joseph Corvelszchik). He was a foreign man who moved to America as he was small. He was always nervous and worked in a factory as small as age ten. His father told him about the men in the factory and said to keep his head down. Once he dropped a basket of buttons, all the men cursed and even his father frowned upon him. This made him even more nervous so his doctor prescribed him something that turned him blue. He then worked at the sideshow on Ruby Pier as a "freak". One day he was practicing his driving and a little kid (age seven, Eddie) suddenly ran across the street with a bat in hand, chasing a baseball, he frantically stopped, but his nervousness got the best of him. He swerved down the road and banged into someone. He got out of the car and had a heart attack. The police later found him that Sunday in a small alleyway. Many strangers attended his funeral due to the lack of relatives. In Heaven, no one realized his skin, it turned a perfect tone, so those imperfections on Earth, don't matter in the most heavenly places...
He taught Eddie that one event can turn out to have the most different outcomes. One outcome can be tragic and another can be happy. This is a very wise thing to say. Like Eddie's death, the key fell through years before and no one ever thought that it would kill someone decades later. This happens a lot in life, sometimes it is not as extreme a theses situation and sometimes it is, so that is something to think about in life.
He taught Eddie that one event can turn out to have the most different outcomes. One outcome can be tragic and another can be happy. This is a very wise thing to say. Like Eddie's death, the key fell through years before and no one ever thought that it would kill someone decades later. This happens a lot in life, sometimes it is not as extreme a theses situation and sometimes it is, so that is something to think about in life.