Yes. Funerals are way too hard to get through without bawling if I knew the guy. There’s a little room at my local place where the guys enemies can have a toast, its kind of strange.
I find it a little strange that you have a “local place”.
Some cultures do a “wake” and toast the passing, but they’re not the guy’s enemies. Just a way to send off your buddy with a bang. But I guess every place could have its own little twist.
When I have my funeral, it’ll have to be in two parts: one for my friends, and one for my enemies, the difference being that while both groups have tried to kill me at least once, my friends are jovial professionals about it. The enemies will be herded to an upstairs room, while my friends will be brought to a larger, downstairs room, which will contain the biggest aquarium available, filled with every sort of dangerous sea creature the event organizers can get their hands on. The entertainment for the night is when the floor of my enemy’s upstairs room opens up and dumps them into said aquarium.
I concur. My mom told me that whenever she dies, she wants us to have a party in memory of the fun we had with her. Well, either that, or she wants to be cremated and made into a diamond, but I’m not I really want to wear my mother around as jewelry.
On a totally unrelated note, Ponytail Bug’s line is hilarious. I love this comic more every day.
Funerals are the worst, and I don’t care that rituals of death are one of the cultural touchstones that marked our ancestors transition to modern humanity; I’m absolutely opposed to them and have made it clear to my next-of-kin that we’re to have no such nonsense on my account. (I had a really bad experience with traditional funerals that had me just about ready to come along for the ride after my fiancee passed away, and it leaves me wondering why the hell we still subject ourselves to this shit…)
Yeah, many people subject themselves (and others) to funerals because they’re “expected” to. Others find it a good time to really get the catharsis started, so it’s useful to them.
Yeah, this was very much a “because we were expected to” thing, compounded by the fact that she’d been the valedictorian-perfect-student-volunteered-in-the-community type back in high school, so all sorts of people who barely knew her showed up to stand in line and let us know, in case we hadn’t noticed, that it was tragic .
I have never cried at a funeral. Even for people I’ve cared about. But several days after the fact, I’ll just, like, break down. I’unno, I just can’t seem to cry when it’s appropriate.
That was a fun day at work when it finally hit me what happened!
Jeeeze dude, i know exactly how you feel. My grandfather died, and i didn’t shed a tear at the funeral. like, four days afterwards, i just thought about it and then burst down into tears
Same thing happened with me about my mom when I was 13. I didn’t cry at the funeral but I started bawling a couple weeks later when I came home from a trip and thought, “I can’t wait to tell Mom about it!”
Our family funerals are full of people telling funny stories and remembering the deceased, playing their favorite music and looking at old photos…no prayers or corpses. Though there are flowers…and everyone is uncharacteristically dressed up.
This one’s just bad timing for me to find very entertaining, as my mom just passed away a couple of months ago after a year and a half battle with brain cancer. And yes, a close friend of mine has requested that when it’s his time we have a wake, not a funeral. He wants people to celebrate his life, not mourn his death – probably not a bad idea.
I have to agree on the wake bit, they’re really the way to go when it comes to looking at death of a loved one . Don’t regret their going, instead celebrate their life !
Yup. Last panel with the drinking bug casually leaning on the open casket…dynamite!
For me, personally, I’m to be cremated. None of that “open casket” crap! I want people to remember me the way I am now, not laying in a casket. I told my wife to flush my ashes down the toilet for all I care. I’m dead, so big whoop!
And playing “Another one bites the dust” is an AWESOME idea! I’ma write that down!
Thanks again, Adam. Love this comic so much!
My funeral is gonna be a fish fry at the town lake. The coffin will be leaning up against a tree; not sure if I’ll be positioned for a handshake, fist bump or high five. Anyone who cries gets thrown out. Way I figure, the only person needs to be upset at my funeral is me. Course, I’ll be bored stiff…
I agree funerals are just bizarre, the idea of my corpse being dolled up, preserved, paraded around, then buried is just beyond me, even cremation due to fact your more than likely going to be kept by relative and slowly help them develop schizophrenia, I’m dead don’t talk to me, just chuck me in the ditch and let nature run its course
Ugh, my family has the most morbid funerals. After everybody shows up at the church and is seated, they slam the lid.
I’ve put my family on notice that there are to be no hymns or Sarah McLachlan songs played at my funeral. I’m arranging the playlist myself, and it will be the most bizarre mix of Metal and Motown anyone’s every heard.
Yes. Funerals are way too hard to get through without bawling if I knew the guy. There’s a little room at my local place where the guys enemies can have a toast, its kind of strange.
I find it a little strange that you have a “local place”.
Some cultures do a “wake” and toast the passing, but they’re not the guy’s enemies. Just a way to send off your buddy with a bang. But I guess every place could have its own little twist.
Yeah, rather than be sad about their passing, they celebrate the good life they had. It’s certainly an interesting twist.
When I have my funeral, it’ll have to be in two parts: one for my friends, and one for my enemies, the difference being that while both groups have tried to kill me at least once, my friends are jovial professionals about it. The enemies will be herded to an upstairs room, while my friends will be brought to a larger, downstairs room, which will contain the biggest aquarium available, filled with every sort of dangerous sea creature the event organizers can get their hands on. The entertainment for the night is when the floor of my enemy’s upstairs room opens up and dumps them into said aquarium.
Excellent.
I concur. My mom told me that whenever she dies, she wants us to have a party in memory of the fun we had with her. Well, either that, or she wants to be cremated and made into a diamond, but I’m not I really want to wear my mother around as jewelry.
On a totally unrelated note, Ponytail Bug’s line is hilarious. I love this comic more every day.
You can’t spell funeral without fun. Think about it.
Gotta admire the Irish – they can have a good party with the cadaver as the guest of honor and not get bummed out – love a good Wake!!
Funeral could use a little livening up *wink wink *
Should I call the necromancers?
Well, we could definitely use some more spirits here.
This is why I want them to play “I Will Survive” and “Another One Bites The Dust” at my funeral. Just to lighten the mood.
Funerals are the worst, and I don’t care that rituals of death are one of the cultural touchstones that marked our ancestors transition to modern humanity; I’m absolutely opposed to them and have made it clear to my next-of-kin that we’re to have no such nonsense on my account. (I had a really bad experience with traditional funerals that had me just about ready to come along for the ride after my fiancee passed away, and it leaves me wondering why the hell we still subject ourselves to this shit…)
Yeah, many people subject themselves (and others) to funerals because they’re “expected” to. Others find it a good time to really get the catharsis started, so it’s useful to them.
Yeah, this was very much a “because we were expected to” thing, compounded by the fact that she’d been the valedictorian-perfect-student-volunteered-in-the-community type back in high school, so all sorts of people who barely knew her showed up to stand in line and let us know, in case we hadn’t noticed, that it was tragic .
I have a friend for the “If your happy and you know it clap your hands” song at her funeral.
I have never cried at a funeral. Even for people I’ve cared about. But several days after the fact, I’ll just, like, break down. I’unno, I just can’t seem to cry when it’s appropriate.
That was a fun day at work when it finally hit me what happened!
Jeeeze dude, i know exactly how you feel. My grandfather died, and i didn’t shed a tear at the funeral. like, four days afterwards, i just thought about it and then burst down into tears
Same thing happened with me about my mom when I was 13. I didn’t cry at the funeral but I started bawling a couple weeks later when I came home from a trip and thought, “I can’t wait to tell Mom about it!”
I like the “X” eyes on the deceased. At this scale it’d be too hard to draw pennies.
Our family funerals are full of people telling funny stories and remembering the deceased, playing their favorite music and looking at old photos…no prayers or corpses. Though there are flowers…and everyone is uncharacteristically dressed up.
I just wanna know why nerd bug’s mailbox flag is up indicating he has outgoing mail. All this talk about dying, and that’s what bugs me.
He just put something in and now he’s reading the thing he found there when he opened the box.
Also, aren’t the flags supposed to point the other way?
Also, according to regulation, it must be on the right side
Seems like Adam did a bang-up job.
This one’s just bad timing for me to find very entertaining, as my mom just passed away a couple of months ago after a year and a half battle with brain cancer. And yes, a close friend of mine has requested that when it’s his time we have a wake, not a funeral. He wants people to celebrate his life, not mourn his death – probably not a bad idea.
I have to agree on the wake bit, they’re really the way to go when it comes to looking at death of a loved one . Don’t regret their going, instead celebrate their life !
Seriously thinking about buying this one and putting it on my office wall…
The last panel clenches it. High Five.
Front to back fantastic.
Yup. Last panel with the drinking bug casually leaning on the open casket…dynamite!
For me, personally, I’m to be cremated. None of that “open casket” crap! I want people to remember me the way I am now, not laying in a casket. I told my wife to flush my ashes down the toilet for all I care. I’m dead, so big whoop!
And playing “Another one bites the dust” is an AWESOME idea! I’ma write that down!
Thanks again, Adam. Love this comic so much!
First panel was hilarious!
Anybody else find it humorous that the priest said “Jesus”? Just sayin’.
lol. last panel
My funeral is gonna be a fish fry at the town lake. The coffin will be leaning up against a tree; not sure if I’ll be positioned for a handshake, fist bump or high five. Anyone who cries gets thrown out. Way I figure, the only person needs to be upset at my funeral is me. Course, I’ll be bored stiff…
I agree funerals are just bizarre, the idea of my corpse being dolled up, preserved, paraded around, then buried is just beyond me, even cremation due to fact your more than likely going to be kept by relative and slowly help them develop schizophrenia, I’m dead don’t talk to me, just chuck me in the ditch and let nature run its course
Ugh, my family has the most morbid funerals. After everybody shows up at the church and is seated, they slam the lid.
I’ve put my family on notice that there are to be no hymns or Sarah McLachlan songs played at my funeral. I’m arranging the playlist myself, and it will be the most bizarre mix of Metal and Motown anyone’s every heard.