Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 30, 2019

Since you’re going to die anyway, wouldn’t you rather do it in the comfort of your own bed?

Maybe he just really, really likes hospitals…

I would like to travel too, but it’s too expensive (suppose I could sign up for a “buddy pass” on Delta for which my brother’s wife work as a flight attendant).

After the hospital, you can travel to the Imu pit.

So, Pig, what you want first is to travel in the ambulance.

So like Pig. Very practical, if a little bit literal-minded.

…will Bubba’s Bar-B-Que Shack do?

I would enjoy travel if I hadn’t gotten so old. Now I’m too tired, and it’s too expensive. I limit myself to a 2 hour drive in the mountains.

I aim for the Metro Kingdom

If you’re going to die anyway try for a hospital on a tropical isle.

This is what I’m talking about! This is good classic Pearls humor!!

Pig go on a cruise ship. The hospital is part of the ship ! … Croc Power!

There are other places for a pig to be cured,

Better die than suffer in a hospital these days, Pig.

Just wait until the GOP (“the party of healthcare”) fixes the healthcare system; you won’t have to go to the hospital. There probably won’t be a hospital for you to go to.

I got a GI cat scan. The bill they sent me would have paid for round trip first class air for me and my wife to Japan, get the same scan, and party hard for a week.

if you’re dying, the hospital is a great place they have all the good candy to keep the pain away. just make sure you sign the dnr.

I have a button on a string for that.

Pretty small bucket list…

Thank you for your service EMT’s

That is an incorrect use of “hopefully,” just in case no one else wants to correct him.

I’d give that the prize for the best strip idea today. Well done.

A hospital is the last place I want to go.

Smart Alec…

I’m pulling for you,Pig ;)

I think he’s hoping that by going fast to the hospital he can avoid the dying part! Very literal interpretation, Pig.

Is this a repeat? Seems familiar…

Pig, the question is “before you die”, not “when you die”!!

I hope Death find me alive .

. . . and there’s light traffic.

better hope that those people drive fast because if Thanos snaps then go gotta get there quickly

Oh, Pig that is so sad, so pessimistic. Wouldn’t you like to visit Greece, or Thailand, or even Canada? Someplace besides a hospital?

Sometimes, the nearest hospital is far from your best chance at receiving quality healthcare. Just speakin’ from experience.

Back in my innocent youth I would drive around FL, not my native turf, and marvel at the billboards touting the waiting time (digital, updated) at various emergency rooms. Who would be thinking of that as they are clutching their chest, or gaping at their severed limb, or strapped in the back of an ambulance? Was it for the ambulance drivers? Crazy!

It was much later that I learned that people went to emergency rooms for basic care because they lacked insurance or whatever. Now the signs made sense, but not that the hospitals were vying for these customers. Still Crazy.

Very similar to 01/19… https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2019/01/19

I don’t want to think about death; that’s the last thing I want to do.