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 about 2 months ago
Stephan, you made an ash of yourself.
hariseldon59 about 2 months ago
Anyone for roast pork?
sirbadger about 2 months ago
It depends on how far back in time “traditional” refers to. Burial used to be cheaper.
Bilan about 2 months ago
Apparently the guy is good at his job.
carlsonbob about 2 months ago
Just stuff me full of popcorn kernels and light me up!
Jesy Bertz Premium Member about 2 months ago
Does anyone else smell bacon?
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member about 2 months ago
$2500 and done! They pick you up and put you in the ground in your personal jug!
Kiba65 about 2 months ago
Sort of like a Genie in a bottle!!!!
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 2 months ago
Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.
robm about 2 months ago
I want my remains scattered over Mar-A-Lardo.
I DON’T want to be cremated.
Gent about 2 months ago
Cremated? Burning? Smoke? Climate acteevists will kills ya.
iggyman about 2 months ago
Depends on if you want a viewing , also if you want to be interred or put into a niche!
iggyman about 2 months ago
I knew some folks who loved their booze, if cremated they would burn for a week!
Keno21 about 2 months ago
‘We can burn her, we can bury her, or we can dump her…’
Imagine about 2 months ago
By the way, that dust on your shelves and all over the house…
Frank_Lecanto about 2 months ago
After I’m cremated, put my remains (cremains?) in an urn engraved “Kiss My Ash”
jel354 about 2 months ago
Pig expressed anger. That’s rare!
MacGuyver about 2 months ago
What an ash!
zeexenon about 2 months ago
All natural for me … on the White House lawn.
Go BRUINS about 2 months ago
Cremation. The secret ingredient in Al’s Bundy Burger.
bigger Nate about 2 months ago
Ashes to ashes dust to dust come to my door kill you i must
sailersteve about 2 months ago
Soylent Green anyone?
cdward about 2 months ago
Don’t get all hot, Rat.
Croc Holliday about 2 months 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 about 2 months 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 about 2 months ago
ashes to ashes
Ellis97 about 2 months ago
Pig’s kind usually meet their demise in a butcher shop, a smokehouse or in the jaws of a predator.
Kveldulf about 2 months 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 about 2 months ago
Just kick his ash and get it over with.
ladykat about 2 months ago
At least have the decency to wait until he’s dead.
rossevrymn about 2 months ago
hm
Goat from PBS about 2 months ago
A little hot under the collar, eh, Pig?
Getting scorched by puns?
That pun was fire.
DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago
I love how he always draws himself with a sort of deadpan deer-in-the-headlights look.
rshive about 2 months ago
There’s a pun buried in there somewhere.
monya_43 about 2 months ago
Pig should be recording his show while he answers the door, so he won’t miss anything. Technology is great.
Charlie Tuba about 2 months ago
Burning Man!
franki_g about 2 months ago
Pastis knows how to put the fun
in funeral
ElwoodP about 2 months ago
hmm… roast pork.
Tootsie Premium Member about 2 months ago
Raat!
pripley about 2 months ago
That was a stretch for a pretty lame gag…even by Pastis standards.
Snoots about 2 months 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 about 2 months ago
Stephan is on fire.
tony_n_jen2003 about 2 months ago
Rat would call up a crematorium and ask, “What’s cooking?”
PoodleGroomer about 2 months ago
I don’t need cremation services. I’m not dead, yet.
John Lamb Premium Member about 2 months ago
At some point during a cremation, the meat is perfectly cooked.
oish about 2 months ago
So Pig, how do you want to be cremated? Kansas City, Carolina or Lexington style?
razzledazzle295 about 2 months ago
Come back later. MUCH later.
dialfred about 2 months ago
Hope this is still a joke, since I love this comic
DanMercer about 2 months 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 about 2 months ago
Composting is the wave of the future.
Old27F20 about 2 months ago
…but cremation is pig’s last chance to have a smokin hot body!!…other than at a BBQ.
wildlandwaters about 2 months ago
hmm…pig isn’t in the 4th panel…so, did he really burn up then??
mokspr Premium Member about 2 months 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 about 2 months ago
I’ll bring marshmallows… :D
Cathy P. about 2 months 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 about 1 month ago
I think I would prefer pig smoked. Especially the bacon.
Ron Bauerle about 1 month ago
Or do what I’m planning: donate my body to science and let them cremate me when they’re done…
fourteenpeeves about 1 month ago
“My grandfather slept with the rest of our family. But he died so they made him get up”
GRACIE ALLEN
unfair.de about 1 month ago
It’s traditional. Pigs pass by spit-roast.