Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 21, 2016

Tandem sky diving. Never nag when the chute’s being packed.

No longer among the living.

Passed on, is no more, ceased to be, expired, gone to meet his maker, a stiff, bereft of life, resting in peace, pushing up the daisies, his metabolic processes are now history, kicked the bucket, shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible — (paraphrased from Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch)

I had to do most of the Parrot Sketch when my mother passed away and I tried to get that across to the call center at Dish Network. They couldn’t seem to grasp the concept that I wasn’t just trying to change her service to a different address.

They’re pineing for the fjords

Wasn’t that the same conversation they had before they had their first born?

Well, then those who are cream(ated)…they are never letdown…. Togetherness….that’s no fun…..Of course, there are those in war who are killed in unison. Or are we really being morbid?

She’s Dead

A Python classic.

At least he got in the last word.

I prefer to be “Pushin’ up Daiseys”.

Bought the farm was what we used in Vietnam. But I for one prefer the old tried and true phrase, dead or he/she died. No euphemism Just tell the truth. For some reason people in general, in almost every society, don’t even want to admit to themselves that they are going to die. However, no matter how much people want to deny the truth, every single mothers son/daughter is going to die.For some reason my family- Norweigen, second generation-with records going back over 1000 years, does not in talking or writing pretend that people don’t die. We are all very forthright about the subject of death and dying.Just remember, no one is going to escape, everybody dies

…but personally, my favorite is from ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’: Merge with the Infinite.

My, my, my. How civilized this site has become. All these comments about death and not one mention Prince.

When mentioning my genealogy stuff, I mention that "he went underground (fill in date) which repulses some, giggles others and gets the point across.

“Pulled the croak-chain” (Bart Simpson)

Or, in the language of Terry Pratchett, “inhumed.”

I agree completely. I want to ask things like “passed gas”, “passed out”, “passed go and collected 200 dollars?”

I agree completely. I want to ask things like “passed gas”, “passed out”, “passed go and collected 200 dollars?”

“Toes up”, “room temperature”, “dirt nap”…

If I ever “pass away” instead of die, I hope to go to a land where volcanoes spout beer nonstop and stripper factories abound. Most likely though, I’ll just be underground thinking, “It’s dark in here.”