So I’m zooming up the coast, surrounded by the sea and a sea of tourists…

[note: I am not a tourist, I am a wanderer and that fact makes me better than them even if I am standing in the same spot trying to take the same picture as those sheep are trying to take.]

…and I keep seeing this sign

I like the idea of warning people about ways they might die. Especially showing, in cartoon form, what they’ll be doing at that moment when they succumb as depicted above. That little guys is running from a monstrous wall of water up a mountain and he’s not going to make it because his fat lazy ass has been sitting in an office chair for years,

[note: I saw this while wandering in Eugene, OR. The wonder of this moment in time is that I used to sit my lazy ass in an office chair exactly like that one. Now it's being tossed away just like I tossed mine away. It's the cycle of office life.

note to that note: It's pretty weird driving long distances, running your life through your mind trying to understand it better, a kind of meta-analysis, Cliff Notes kind of way, and then you get off the road to take a walk and right in front of you is a piece of your old life, a really important piece when you work in an office in front of a computer all fucking day long, being tossed away. I think that's kind of cool in a grand scheme of meaninglessly meaningful things.]

What I think, is that there should be all sorts of those signs. All sorts of signs scattered hither and tither about the land, warning people about how they could die.

For instance, you could have

killer bee signs with a little cartoony guy swatting at a swarm of dots covering him

earthquake signs showing a crowd being crushed by a falling building or swallowed up in a hole in the earth

wasted life signs with a sad sillouette laying in bed with a razor on his wrist

volcano eruption signs and a wall of lava burning a little cartoon guy

gambling debt gone unpaid signs with a cartoon guy getting his head bashed in by goons

drunken stupor and drowning in your own vomit signs

head being blown apart by a gun signs

fat guy having a heart attack signs where the little cartoon guy is fat and grabbing at his chest with one hand while holding a burger in the other

rotting away in a hospital signs

being eaten by a gang of hungry children signs

falling off a cliff wearing nothing other than a smile signs

People need to know and be reminded of the futility of their existance. They need to know!

That’s why we’ve all got to start talking to our legislators about this immediately. We’ll be the People for a Reminder of Our Own Temporary Existance (PROOTE).

It’s a national awareness issue! What could be important than reminding people that they’re going to die!

“You have to know that someday you will die. Until you know that, you are useless.”

It’s the most important thing that, we as a people who care about good jokes, can do to help people move along in their lifes.

The samurai used to meditate every day on their own deaths to make that moment unimportant and themselves fearless in battle. Imagine a world of people fearless in life! Fuck battle. Battle is easy. Defending your immediate life is a piece of cake to do, you fight or you die. Try being fearless in life where you never know what’s going on. That shit’s hard.

So call your legistators pronto! Call you congressman/woman/child! Call your neighbor and when he comes over you should open the door and pop him or her right in the face. People need to be reminded that it’s a dangerous world out there. They need to be reminded that someday they will die and they’ll die in a wall of water they can’t run from.