Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 28, 2018

A perfectly valid and accurate answer.

And then all of the microbes that have been harmlessly co-existing in your body begin to digest it.

was Rat expecting a religious answer?

You see a big screen that says

PLAY AGAIN? Y/N

As well as list of your stats, such as years survived, wealth acquired, and kill-to-death ratio.

Pig’s got it right. You die, game over. No replays.

Cue the commenters- all the ones who will pontificate on BOTH sides of whether or not there is an afterlife- with little or no proof.

Pig’s Book of the Dead – in its entirety.

When you die, you die. Even the Bible says so. Immortality of the soul is a false teaching by the religions of the world.

Let’s keep in mind that the question was asked of a pig. The answer might well have been “honey glazing”.

Since when does Rat give a Pigs Patoot about what happens in the next 15 minutes??

Ever since he heard that many pigs are “cured” after death, he never worried much about it.

Okay, did, Pastis, accidentally mix up the word balloons?

Oh happy days, oh happy days, ………………………………..

There is an afterlife for Pig, at least – the porkinator sandwich.

Yes. The reality is that we get born, we live as long as we can, and then we die.

Those two are destined to reincarnate until they learn the meaning of life.

You fools. Join my church and with enough money I will guarantee you eternal life after death. And that guarantee comes with double your money back.

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, just like my Grandpa.

Not screaming, like the passengers on his bus…

Well, you can’t argue with logic like that.

“What do you think” can be answered by either fact or belief. Nobody “knows” for a fact there is an afterlife, it is a belief for those that think so. Some, “I lean that way” to “I believe it with all my heart and soul” followed by a full discussion on apologetics. So it goes much further back than just that belief. Belief in an afterlife begins with a belief in “God” which can, to some, be bolstered by facts, observations and history and not always blind faith. I will leave it at that.

Can’t we get back to something joyful that we can all agree on like the political commentary?

rip

I’m pretty sure some of the comic authors deliberately put in strips designed to troll the commenters.

It’s been a fun day with the comments, but let me cap it with this question…. which god are you talking about?

I know what happens after death……no more taxes……at least I hope not.

We’ll find out.

Yes, Rat, it certainly has.

The cute old lady in the commercial used to cry, “Where’s the beef?”

My lament, where today is the humorous punchline?

In rat’s case, an afterlife wouldn’t be a good thing.

NEEDACHUCKLE You die when brain function stops so 30 to 90 seconds are just your last 30 to 90 seconds of life.

Sad that there has to be so much debate on this topic. I’m an atheist and I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I do know that we’ll all find out for certain in only one way.

And your brain ceases to function. But Pig is still alive, yet brain dead.

and your brain shuts off and you get to experience the feeling of complete unconsciousness. forever.