My plan is to donate any useful organs I may have left (minus the eyes) and cremate the rest. Use the ashes to fertilize a tree or coral reef or something like that. Burials are such a ridiculous waste of money, real estate and wood.
I want a green burial — untreated pine box, no formaldehyde, just worm food. My cemetery insists on a concrete vault to hold the coffin and pickling me to poison the soil.
It has seemed strange to me that in some countries (like the U.S.) it is not legal to simply dig a hole, put the body in it, and cover it up. It has to be in some kind of box. And that box is often not very biodegradable. Seriously?
Humans are strange and unreasoning creatures. Return the body to the earth, and let the planet benefit from it.
Mr Pastis, the Wise A** has recomended a traditional Tibetan sky burial for you after you pass. The Rat however, says there is no time like the present.
Human composting, supposedly a green way to dispose of the body, is now legal in about 8 or 9 states. Just dump the body in a barrel with the dirt and composting medium, turn the barrel every few days, and in a month or so, just add the new fertilizer to the garden. Your family can eat veg that have absorbed you.
BasilBruce 20 days ago
Stephan, you made an ash of yourself.
hariseldon59 20 days ago
Anyone for roast pork?
sirbadger 20 days ago
It depends on how far back in time “traditional” refers to. Burial used to be cheaper.
Bilan 20 days ago
Apparently the guy is good at his job.
carlsonbob 20 days ago
Just stuff me full of popcorn kernels and light me up!
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 20 days ago
Does anyone else smell bacon?
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member 20 days ago
$2500 and done! They pick you up and put you in the ground in your personal jug!
Kiba65 20 days ago
Sort of like a Genie in a bottle!!!!
FreyjaRN Premium Member 20 days ago
Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.
robm 20 days ago
I want my remains scattered over Mar-A-Lardo.
I DON’T want to be cremated.
Gent 20 days ago
Cremated? Burning? Smoke? Climate acteevists will kills ya.
iggyman 20 days ago
Depends on if you want a viewing , also if you want to be interred or put into a niche!
iggyman 20 days ago
I knew some folks who loved their booze, if cremated they would burn for a week!
Keno21 20 days ago
‘We can burn her, we can bury her, or we can dump her…’
Imagine 20 days ago
By the way, that dust on your shelves and all over the house…
Frank_Lecanto 20 days ago
After I’m cremated, put my remains (cremains?) in an urn engraved “Kiss My Ash”
jel354 20 days ago
Pig expressed anger. That’s rare!
MacGuyver 20 days ago
What an ash!
zeexenon 20 days ago
All natural for me … on the White House lawn.
Go BRUINS 20 days ago
Cremation. The secret ingredient in Al’s Bundy Burger.
bigger Nate 20 days ago
Ashes to ashes dust to dust come to my door kill you i must
sailersteve 20 days ago
Soylent Green anyone?
cdward 20 days ago
Don’t get all hot, Rat.
Croc Holliday 20 days ago
My plan is to donate any useful organs I may have left (minus the eyes) and cremate the rest. Use the ashes to fertilize a tree or coral reef or something like that. Burials are such a ridiculous waste of money, real estate and wood.
chris_o42 20 days ago
Cremation is the only way to be sure you don’t come back as a zombie or a vampire. Better safe than sorry. Those darn undead can be a real nuisance.
smithsilverstrea 20 days ago
ashes to ashes
Ellis97 20 days ago
Pig’s kind usually meet their demise in a butcher shop, a smokehouse or in the jaws of a predator.
Kveldulf 20 days ago
I want a green burial — untreated pine box, no formaldehyde, just worm food. My cemetery insists on a concrete vault to hold the coffin and pickling me to poison the soil.
Hope I live long enough to change their minds.
Znox11 20 days ago
Just kick his ash and get it over with.
ladykat 20 days ago
At least have the decency to wait until he’s dead.
rossevrymn 20 days ago
hm
Goat from PBS 20 days ago
A little hot under the collar, eh, Pig?
Getting scorched by puns?
That pun was fire.
DaBump Premium Member 20 days ago
I love how he always draws himself with a sort of deadpan deer-in-the-headlights look.
rshive 20 days ago
There’s a pun buried in there somewhere.
monya_43 20 days ago
Pig should be recording his show while he answers the door, so he won’t miss anything. Technology is great.
Charlie Tuba 20 days ago
Burning Man!
franki_g 20 days ago
Pastis knows how to put the fun
in funeral
ElwoodP 20 days ago
hmm… roast pork.
Tootsie Premium Member 20 days ago
Raat!
pripley 20 days ago
That was a stretch for a pretty lame gag…even by Pastis standards.
Snoots 20 days ago
It has seemed strange to me that in some countries (like the U.S.) it is not legal to simply dig a hole, put the body in it, and cover it up. It has to be in some kind of box. And that box is often not very biodegradable. Seriously?
Humans are strange and unreasoning creatures. Return the body to the earth, and let the planet benefit from it.
newsbb 20 days ago
Stephan is on fire.
tony_n_jen2003 20 days ago
Rat would call up a crematorium and ask, “What’s cooking?”
PoodleGroomer 20 days ago
I don’t need cremation services. I’m not dead, yet.
John Lamb Premium Member 20 days ago
At some point during a cremation, the meat is perfectly cooked.
oish 20 days ago
So Pig, how do you want to be cremated? Kansas City, Carolina or Lexington style?
razzledazzle295 20 days ago
Come back later. MUCH later.
dialfred 20 days ago
Hope this is still a joke, since I love this comic
DanMercer 20 days ago
We’re in our 70’s. Once a month we get a letter from the Neptune Society. It’s like being circled by buzzards.
willie_mctell 20 days ago
Composting is the wave of the future.
Old27F20 20 days ago
…but cremation is pig’s last chance to have a smokin hot body!!…other than at a BBQ.
wildlandwaters 20 days ago
hmm…pig isn’t in the 4th panel…so, did he really burn up then??
mokspr Premium Member 20 days ago
Mr Pastis, the Wise A** has recomended a traditional Tibetan sky burial for you after you pass. The Rat however, says there is no time like the present.
Katje 20 days ago
I’ll bring marshmallows… :D
Cathy P. 20 days ago
Human composting, supposedly a green way to dispose of the body, is now legal in about 8 or 9 states. Just dump the body in a barrel with the dirt and composting medium, turn the barrel every few days, and in a month or so, just add the new fertilizer to the garden. Your family can eat veg that have absorbed you.
cracker65 19 days ago
I think I would prefer pig smoked. Especially the bacon.
Ron Bauerle 19 days ago
Or do what I’m planning: donate my body to science and let them cremate me when they’re done…
fourteenpeeves 19 days ago
“My grandfather slept with the rest of our family. But he died so they made him get up”
GRACIE ALLEN
unfair.de 18 days ago
It’s traditional. Pigs pass by spit-roast.