Comic Strips

People who light up candles: 😟

Do people still light their cigarettes with matches though? I can't remember the last time I've seen anyone even own matches outside of a survival kit lol

— Benjamin, grab your brothers, don't let them take you!

— Ahhh!! Brothers hold me, hooold meee!

— Benjamin nooo!

— Forgive me son, they are about to...

— What are they doing? ×chhsk× AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

— BENJAMINNN!!!

— AAAHHHHHHHhhhhhh...

Is that what you wanted?

Hans Christian Andersen wouldn't have ended it there.

Really? I thought it was touching.

Societies marketing of long life is creepy AF. I'm in my 30s and all I can see is the negative of how the world works. To entertainment myself and ignore the harshness of reality just makes me want to leave sooner. It feels so cowardly to have to live so helplessly in a world you know is wrong.

Thanks for the insight. Most of us interpreted the comic in a more negative light (pun intended).

I completely agree with you. There is a book written by a nursing home carer where she collected the advise and words of wisdom from the elders. Pretty much all of them regret not doing many things while they were younger and more able. In hindsight, they realised that the things they have not done are completely innocent and should not have let fear of being judged or fear of the unfamiliar get to them.

So yes, better to have lived a full life even it's short, than to live old full of regret! So long as you and others are not harmed!

I actually like this depiction because while it does anthrophromize inanimate objects, it also doesn't at the same time. They're matches, even if they were conscious, there's no reason they would have the same philosophy and disposition as humans. From a human view this seems fucked up, but they're not humans, not even animals, and therefore likely have no need for a survival instinct or aversion to dying, and similarly would also have no need to feel physical pain since that's tied into the not dying thing, so they wouldn't mind at all. They would most likely see this as completely normal and even honourable, and might even consider us cowardly and pathetic for being so averse to dying by bursting into flames. Their worst fear might actually be the prospect that they'll be destroyed in some other, boring way, or worse, be forced to lay dormant forever, and therefore never get the chance to experience the glory of catching on fire. That might be what actually causes them pain and suffering which they are spared from by burning to death. In the same way that Klingons are depicted to hold dying in battle in higher regard than all other fates.

Basically matches are Klingons is what I'm saying.

Humans feel pain, but we don't feel the oxidation happening in us constantly. I'd say it's more about what you're built for rather than strictly a concept of pain.