Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 05, 2012

An old, in age only, person once told me on their birthday, “It’s better than the alternative.”

I’ll complain if I want to. Option B comes up no matter what anyway.

My aunt at about 97 said that 97 isn’t old. She lived to 100.

“Being totally healthy is simply the slowest way to die. " -unknown -

I’m thinking, I’m thinking!

Agent54, great line. Although I love the sentiment, death by fire ants is probably, pretty harsh. and burning alive and stuff sucks…being blowed up good, is the best way to go…..it happens a hundred thousand times faster than a thought. No pain…..That whole prolonged pain thing kinda bugs me a bit….

Wiley, um, just out of curiosity what is Option G?….BTW, the drawings of the couple are just great . The guy’s pants crack me up…Her dress and the trees are fresh, too….Rock on, sir….

That’s the old saying: “The alternative to getting old is depressing.”

“Option C is that we bury you anyway, but you’re still complaining when we do it.”

Golden Achers.

“Life is wasted on the living”. Douglas Adams.

Listen up whippersnappers,Everyone gets to be young.Not everyone gets to be old.

Not if you’re a born-again Christian- Acts2:38-39, I Thess. 4:14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

John 3:1. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Looking forward to this!!!

Saw a bumper sticker: “Aging is the only way to live.”

oh God, believers in an afterlife. and that is why the world is so Fukked up. put off till tomorrow, get out of jail cards.

that old time religion has done us all in.

here is the meaning of life. you get up, you walk around, and go back to bed.

Getting old is not for wimps.

“Marry an accountant (or insert appropriate profession here) – you won’t live longer, but it will certainly seem like it.”

ain’t that the truth!

i would rather see a politicial comment than @jen’s long winded comment

Pretty close to Hobson’s Choice. Like when you approach the merge as a lane ends, the guy in the lane “not ending” runs you off the road — no right to live if your lane dies.

Poor Wiley. No matter what he draws, he attracts the Trolls to this strip. If it’s not the political poltroons, then it’s the religious zealots !Just be grateful. If you didn’t make the Police Blotter or the Irish Sports Page ( Obits. column ) in you daily paper, then it’s a good day !

The Ryan/Romney replacement for Medicare.

Whoever called them “The Golden Years” was being sarcastic. Very, very sarcastic. I didn’t realize that until I entered them.

Why would the Gothic band Cementary have tombstones? I thought cemeteries had them.

I’ve said for some time; “Growing old’s a bitch, but the alternative really sucks”, and Wiley reflects same.

My mom is now 100, and considering her current “quality of life”, I’m really not so sure any more. She’s “hyper-religious”, yet still fears death, and “hangs on” tenaciously to life, even in constant pain, nearly totally immobile, and losing her mental faculties, so I question how “reassuring” all that scripture really is.

Am aiming to smite evil up to the last. Other peoples’, that is. Found a reep candidate who mastered deficit spending…he five-fingered his I Hop franchise into bankruptcy even tho he took waitresses’ wages…and hasn’t paid for a custom car he’s campaigning in.

I hope I die ‘outing’ THOSE kinds of criminals. Yup, I live in NM, home of the current princess of reep bigtime TX money.Yup, the evildoer has her total support.

I think it’s option A. There is no alternative.

I’ll comment on the strip if it ever loads. In the mean time I’d just like to ask, would you all rather live a short, happy life, or a long, miserable one? Oddly enough, most people choose the latter.

Youth is certainly wasted on the young. What I could do with it now!

Who wants to live to be 100?Ask anybody who’s 99.

LIFE: no one excapes alive. Everything must go…sometime.

There are some old people that would love option B. Esp those who are slowly dying from some painful malady.

everybody wants to go to heaven, but noone is in a big rush to get there

Since for many, complaining is one of the great joys of continued existence, this strip seems rather incoherent. And now I have to waste time complaining about it in the comments? And my knee hurts. And why do people always leave the room while I’m talking?

@JenWho appointed you to save our non-existing souls?