Close to Home by John McPherson for May 15, 2022

Also don’t forget to hook the bell up before you plant him.

For whom the bell tolls

great is he is buried below the water table!

Is that an old girl scout cap she’s wearing??…”Anchor’s Away..!!”

I don’t blame him, I doubt if those things are watertight. I’ve heard of them floating though.

Hi, Bleeb. Please note, this is not normal human behavior.

Must be in New Orleans.

Poor soul! (sniff) He must have died in surgery… he still has some kinda tube in his mouth. And (sniff) whatever he died from (sniff) caused him to have duck feet!

Swimming with the fishes

Please God, don’t let me die with a snorkel in my mouth.

No life jacket?

Don’t forget to cut a hole in the top of the coffin for the snorkel to pass through. “Up periscope!”

Can never be too careful these days…even in a watery grave

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial at Sea.

“Morbid fear,” indeed.

I don’t think he needs to worry about floods where he’s going.

Planning on burying him standing up I guess.

Wouldn’t you need a wetsuit then? And what good is a snorkel in a mortuary!?

He’s reality check bounced.

The mask isn’t fogged up so there’s that.

Is he Egyptian?

Wow, is the humor in how that makes absolutely no sense in several different ways?