April 22nd, 2007
Revolution/Revelations
Or it might be something else, but it will happen one day, and I have a sneaky feeling that whatever it is that makes us extinct, we’ll be responsible for it somehow.
I’d also like to dedicate this comic in rememberance of one of my favourite authors, Kurt Vonnegut – He’s with Isaac now.
I think we’ll be killed by the inhalation of microscopic Chinese people.
I have this theory that you cannot, by definition, die of anything you think will kill you – you can only die the last way you expect.
This explains why Steve Irwin averted death by crocodile, only to die by sting ray, otherwise known as the Happy Face of the Ocean.
It also explains why Dr. Atkins is sitting in Paradise muttering, “Damn, if I’d known I was going to slip on the ice and bang my head on the pavement, I might have had a bagel under that load of cream cheese.”
Well, Ms Widow, if that stops me from dying from inhaling my mycroscopic Chinese brethren, then I have something to be grateful for.
Steve Irwins death came as quite a shock… I mean, not that the Aussie croc bait actually died, but the fact that it was a fish that got him… I guess irony is one of natures presets.
Do you mind if I draw a comic of your theory? I like it a lot, the idea that you must be oblivios to your own method of death. There’s something about that…
Amazing illustration and point. I love this. Seriously, great!
I disagree on this theory, the examples are nice, but they are just 2 examples. If we put against Steve Irwin in this case Timothy Treadwell, aka Grizzly Man, everybody would have expected him to die by the bears he lived amongst. And after a multitude of seasons, that actually happened as he and his girlfriend were eaten alive by one of the bears.
Now of course you could argue that he was a complete fool for going to live amongst the perhaps and perhaps really thought the bears wouldn’t kill him, so it was the least expected way of dying for him. Although I doubt that’s the case.
Not to mention his girlfriend which was a lot wiser than Timothy and wasn’t as fond of the bears as he was.
Because of free will, no matter what we eventually die of, we’ll blame ourselves for it anyway.
Geez, that would be awesome.
Sorry for saying “geez.”
Also sorry for saying “awesome.”
But it would.
Timothy Treadwell is another case in point. He was absolutely convinced in his own mind that, however he was going to die, bears weren’t going to kill him.
I think suicidal people normally have some met expectation as to how they’re going to die.
[...] one for example is the alternate version of Revolution/Revelations and the pair of them will bookend the next book, The Flowfield [...]
There is a great joke regarding SI death, from a crocs perspective.
I keep having NDE’s and still I am not dying, I am not sure what will kill me, but I was expecting to be dead long ago.
Why is Atkins sitting in Paradise?
My personal theory is that after doing do many tests on animals one of the tests will go wrong and the animals will turn on us and do tests on humans. It could happen.
Sorry about the late comment, but I am new here. I love the theory and am busy expecting to die in every conceivable circumstance, such that I may live forever.
Don’t forget the following:
Drowning in custard
Being trampled by sloths
Getting *that* annoyed by a bad cup of coffee
The problem with the theory is that essentially, you’re just pushing yourself towards a more bizarre death.
Got it.
Got it.
Got it.
Adding ‘accidentally biting my own neck, tapping into previously unknown vampyric tendencies, enjoying it so much, I forget to stop.’ and ‘suffering a sudden reversal of gravity while taking my first space flight and crashing into the moon’ and ‘building my own Dalek model, but not allowing enough interal space, getting stuck and then impaling myself on the bolt that holds the sucker in place.
Thanks for your assistance with my Eternity Project.