June 3, 2026

When a soldier wakes up in full combat armour, he finds himself in an empty room save for a television. Upon turning it on he is told he is in heaven, and so is to settle down and contemplate his navel for all eternity. This is a man of action, though, so he decides to have another go at the dying lark. This time, he wakes up to a not so swanky telly and the discovery that he is in purgatory. What might be next? Hell? I did like this as it's my k… read the rest.

When a soldier wakes up in full combat armour, he finds himself in an empty room save for a television. Upon turning it on he is told he is in heaven, and so is to settle down and contemplate his navel for all eternity. This is a man of action, though, so he decides to have another go at the dying lark. This time, he wakes up to a not so swanky telly and the discovery that he is in purgatory. What might be next? Hell? I did like this as it's my kind of black humour coupled with a nice little critique on the preposterousness of the concepts of an "afterlife" in any of it's guises. I though the quite bleak and angular animation reminded me a little of "Max Headroom" as his head became more and more ventilated, and this did raise a smile for all but three minutes. Give it a go.

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