Close to Home by John McPherson for December 13, 2024

i’d go with the former

Sounds like a lot of life choices

Tough choice.

… or, if you can get that whole mattress to levitate, you can make a fortune and retire

Yeah, basically that’s what the medical industry offers us all as we age.

This is so accurate that it’s sadly funny. They want to push pills on me for a condition they can’t explain, which have side effects. I’m not getting any symptoms from the condition, so…I know what my choice is.

We checked your financial and feel you afford to live a long tine

Isn’t that the deal we all have to face?

How short of time?

If ever given the choice, I would choose the ‘short time feel great’ option. Don’t like the thought of extending misery.

Lessee… short time great, long time lousy. Hmmm.

Naaaaah, what else ya got?!

Actually, not funny for some.

I am on the long time and feeling lousy, path.

I’ll go with short and great, I’ve seen long and lousy

Yup, that’s the option the docs gave me about a Whipple operation. I’m now suffering through the ‘live longer and regret it’ recovery.

If you have a complaint, your doctor with prescribe a medication that cures your symptom, but gives you four more complaints. Then the doctor will prescribe four new medications for those complaints leading to a dozen new complaints…

With the “feel great” option, are we talking about energetic and hale, or do you mean drugged up and high?

Knowing the side effects of todays medicine, this cartoon is true to life.

IDE rather live loner feeling great…chemo will kill you faster…

Third option: Quit your whining and go back to work!

When I was young, I hated that I was spending so much money on insurance when I never got sick. I’m making up for it now. Brain surgery, knee replacement, broken elbow. Right now in recovery from broken shoulder.

You need to give up the motorcycle!

When the doctor says, “wow, I’ve never seen this before”, watch out!

Looks like another CEO is about to get a case of acute lead poisoning.

Chemotherapy.

I don’t wanna be sick & tired. Live it up. Be more sweet & not worry about being right as much.

“We’ll bill your insurer either way.”

I think I go the “live a long time in misery” option.

TI I I Ime is on my side, yes it is…..

I am 72 and have lived alone since my husband died nearly 20 years ago, taking care of my place in the Cascade foothills, shoveling snow, hauling wood, tending my home, picking up branches…it can be done and between that and how I eat, I think that’s why I stay healthy. And my mom’s genes (she lived to 92).

Delay of death does not actually qualify as a life saving event.

Qualified obstetricians know what I mean.

a relative of mine, who is quite sickly, once said if he knew he was gonna live this long, he woulda taken better care of himself thruout his life… and he’s only about 70. While I know stuff happens, the odds are definitely in your favor if you try to take care while you’re younger…

I do have another option, find another hospital.

You can eat a diet you really hate but you will live an extra ten years… and you can spend that extra time, uh, eating a diet you really hate.

Sounds like life

No brainer. I’ll take quality over quantity any day. Oh, and I’m in my 70s so it could be an issue in the not too distant future.

Sky diving or reading War and Peace.

What’s the third option? There’s ALWAYS a third option in life.

Live fast and leave a good looking corpse.

Coin flip?