Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 19, 2012

I hate it when the reality of mortality gob smacks us !

A wise man (coulda been Yogi Berra for all I know) once said of life “Enjoy it while ya can ‘cuz you’ll never get out alive!”

he must have died, since he’s talking to Richard Nixon…

From the womb to the tomb.

I have a ninety-two year-old friend who long ago paid in advance for the inevitable . . . everything. Took him to see if everything was in order; discovered the people he had arranged things with had sold the business and there was no record of his payment. He had lost his own records in a flood.That was twenty years ago; he says, “Hell no! I ain’t gonna let them get away with that, I’m gonna outlive them ALL!”

When I die, they can put in a plastic bag with the household rubbish for all I care. I only ask one thing and that is "Make sure I AM dead.

When I die I want to be laid before the Speaker’s chair in Congress and reduced by exposure.

i opt for cremation, then just flush a few times to make sure it all goes down

I’m leaving my body to a medical school. No funeral, no expense, no fuss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBdMXhpQnU

Enjoy, one of America’s greatest songwriters…

Thirdguy, thanks. You saved me the trouble…I would have mentioned it sooner, but I read all the posts first….how I roll….BTW, shouldn’t there be a shine somewhere to the bartender that invented the umbrella drink? I mean the guy must have been a genius…He probably started a factory that made little paper umbrellas….We don’t celebrate our true innovators enough….

Oh, I forgot, I was going to dedicate that Prine song to Daboogadie. He gives good advice…Sell my heart to the junk man, and give my love to Rose….

I used to drive past a cemetery gate with a sign that read “One Way, Exit Only.” Just in case we weren’t clear. :)

I can just imagine the sign above the entrance to this bar: Drink up all ye that enter here!

Even for non-religious, one of the best services the Church can do is on Ash Wednesday when they remind people: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” Helps you remember to enjoy the life that’s here right now – and to use it to best effect. We spend way too much time trying to avoid death when it’s just a part of life. And it’s cruel to the people you leave behind not to plan. You might say you don’t care what they do with you, but they still have to figure out something. Personally, I put it in a directive – originally was going for cremation and scattering, but I’ve been reading about green funerals that are essentially returning you to the earth un-embalmed and in a canvass sack or wicker basket. I like the sounds of that.

I have no fear of death, only dying.

Why prepare? I think I’ll just improvise when it happens.

A wiser man than me said (don’t remember who)Live everyday as if it were your last, because one day you’ll be right.

Good health is just dying at a slower rate.

In the words of Willie Nelson : " Just Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die. "<><><><>Roll me up and smoke me when I dieAnd if anyone don’t like it, just look ‘em in the eyeSay I didn’t come here, and I ain’t leavin’So don’t sit around and cryJust roll me up and smoke me when I die.

You won’t see no sad and teary eyesWhen I get my wings and it’s my time to flyJust call my friends and tell themThere’s a party, come on byAnd just roll me up and smoke me when I die.

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Housman had it right: “Malt does more than Milton can/To justify God’s ways to man”.

Oh ye of little faith or imagination. Death is fun. ‘the dead are the lucky ones.’ – Long John S.

p.s. guys funeral arrangements are merely a courtesy to the community. Human carcass is a bio hazard..Really preparing for death involves living for others, not moping in a bar. There were 100’s of neighbors and out-of-state friends at my father’s funeral..My father was a Marine who survived the Chosin Reservoir. He escorted the war dead home to make sure the morticians didn’t just throw the bodies into a hole..(Just last week a young Korean couple was bowing to my sister, thanking our family when they found out he was a frozen chosen alumni.).Well, the mortuary forgot to embalm him before the casket was shipped to Arlington. You should have seen them scramble to avoid a law suit. Yep he didn’t deserve what happened to him, but Dad was there laughing at the morticians forced to do a 1st class funeral at no cost to the family.

@MrBribery & BatterdCitizenAccording o Wiley, he based this character after Dabney Coleman NOT Richard Milhous Nixon.

You have to remember that the custom of the time was to lay out the dead in the parlor and to have a 1 or 2 day viewing(wake), everyone brought food(and drink). Many children of the time had grandma in their living room before the funeral. Embalming was done sometimes and then usually in the home

Actually, Revelations isn’t much fun in the Bible either. Stories of talking images, a world where you hear peace and prosperity preached at every corner, a world where Russia is poised on the edge of the Middle East and will invade at a moments notice, a world where Israel has a powerful military and actually exists after centuries of being defunct, a world where the economy is based on European single currency and strong ME monies. Oh, it’s almost like the One who sent the letter to John knew the future. If you stuck Nostradamus’ name on it, the atheists and Neo-pagans would be all over it. Hey, you brought up death and where we’re all going. I would certainly like for others to go the living direction

Caddy: Similar to Walt Kelly (via Albert), “Don’t take life seriously, son, it ain’t nohow permanent.” The quote was used again in Pogo after Kelly’s death.

The livliness of life comes from the always impending doom of death.

Anybody else want to say it’s Dabney Coleman?

Maybe now, no one else will make the tricky Dick mistake.

Still reading the X-Men, kid?