Comic #3375: 2014-08-14

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Panel 1: Excuse me. Can I interest you in the spirit realm?
Person 1: BAH!

Panel 2: Humans have long lifespans because our grandparents help nurture children. But, imagine if instead of living, grandparents died and then nurtured from beyond the grave! They wouldn’t need food, shelter, or anything.

Panel 3: You’d want grandparents to die quickly so they could start low-cost nurturing. You’d also want shorter and shorter generation times, so you could reap a crapload of grandmas faster than some other tribe.

Panel 4: Parents would cease to do childcare because there’d be a FREE dead relative daycare system. So, babies would have no need to be cute, and would thus become more and more annoying.

Panel 5: Slowly, but surely, humans would need and want each other less and less. We’d evolve to be more solitary, mating quickly then leaving our babies to be raised by their more social ancestors.

Panel 6: Finally, we’d be too inhuman to leave behind ghosts. Humans would just look upon ghosts with disdain and confusion.

Panel 7: Most people just say ‘no thanks.’
Person 1: Those people need to get educated.

Panel 8: Person 2: (looking surprised)

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