Dead Like Me: Life After Death
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- 2009
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Let me tell you a story.
A story of life and death.
My death.
But before we go there, we need to
go back to a time where it all started,
when God was getting busy
with the creation of the universe,
where there was only cosmic goo.
God's Play-Doh,
if you will.
While God was messing with this
Play-Doh, creating all living things,
he put death into
a ceramic jar for safekeeping,
what to do with it.
One day, God gave the jar
to a frog and a toad
to guard it from harm while he went
off to create something more fantastic.
Why he gave it to a frog
and a toad, I'll never know.
But one thing led to another.
The jar shattered,
letting death out.
And ever since,
everything has to die.
So there you have it.
The mystery of death finally revealed.
Which brings us to my story.
Everybody dies.
That's just the way it is.
the same speed for everyone.
And we all know that
one day that clock will stop.
And when it does,
we're only going to have time to say...
I'm told I'm not supposed
to argue or question,
or even try to understand.
I'm told it a lot these days,
ever since my life was snuffed out
by a toilet seat from an old space station,
and I joined the ranks of the undead
and became a grim reaper.
This is Rube. He's our boss.
Every morning we meet Rube at
a restaurant called Der Waffle Haus,
where he would review the list which
has who's to die, when and where,
which he writes out on a Post-it
and then passes on
to all the grim reapers.
Rube says that you don't
mess around with fate, peanut.
People die when they are meant to die.
You cannot intervene in any way.
When life is done, it's done.
We, the undead, are meant to exist
on the fringe of the living world.
We can move freely
among the living to do our job.
My name is George Lass.
I've been dead for five years.
I take souls for a living.
My division is External Influence.
Translation:
murders,natural disasters, accidents, et cetera.
And I do mean et cetera.
Hi, yes, Professor Gregor?
This is Mr. Fielding from
the Arthur Barrisford Foundation.
I am thrilled to announce to you
that you have finally
been named the recipient
of our $500,000 genius grant.
That ugly guy?
He's a graveling.
They set things in motion.
look out below.
The sun rises, the sun sets.
Life comes, and for a
once successful inventor
who's down on his luck, life goes.
Welcome to the afterlife, Mr. Gregor.
Sorry about the last-minute reaping,
but we don't normally do suicides,
so I wasn't sure you were
our man till the last second.
I don't care.
I won. I finally won.
Yes, you did, the jackpot.
Now, into your lights.
You know, I thought it would
hurt more, but it didn't. Not at all.
Well, that's 'cause
I took your soul before you died.
Oh! Well, thank you
very much, Miss, uh...
Lass, but you can call me George.
Am I gonna see you again
where I'm going towards?
Eventually.
When I get my lights.
I don't know when.
Death is full of surprises, huh?
You have no idea.
I love morning reaps,
accomplishing so much
when everyone else is still in bed,
and I still have the whole day ahead of me.
Reapers are assigned an unspecified
allotment of souls to collect.
You don't know how many souls
until you've nabbed the last one,
and then you move on.
Moving on, much like death,
has its own timetable.
You don't know when
it's going to happen until it happens.
And today, fate is telling
our band of merry grim reapers
to move on from Der Waffle Haus.
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