Wizard Of Id: Old Folk's Home

[Lynn McGuire]

Wizard Of Id: Old Folk's Home
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2024/02/17

I laughed at first and then I went oh. Bad taste ?

Lynn

[Robert Carnegie]

Post by Lynn McGuire
Wizard Of Id: Old Folk's Home
   https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2024/02/17
I laughed at first and then I went oh.  Bad taste ?

Comments cover some of the stories
in which personified Death is not
carrying out their duties and this
is seen to be not the unmixed blessing
that you would imagine. Sir Terry
Pratchett's version(s) are mentioned.

However, people near to dying often
won't mind having longer to wait.

Then again, this -
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchwood:_Miracle_Day>

[Cryptoengineer]

Post by Lynn McGuire
Wizard Of Id: Old Folk's Home
   https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2024/02/17
I laughed at first and then I went oh.  Bad taste ?

"Death takes a holiday" is a well-trod trope.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathTakesAHoliday

pt

[Robert Carnegie]

Post by Cryptoengineer

Post by Lynn McGuire
Wizard Of Id: Old Folk's Home
    https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2024/02/17
I laughed at first and then I went oh.  Bad taste ?

"Death takes a holiday" is a well-trod trope.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathTakesAHoliday

Hey, did one of you add this comic onto that page?
;-)