The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.

niktemadur,

An ideal last prank for all you Andy Kaufman-types out there.

Anticorp,

Or pay the graveyard to spray Roundup around your grave. That’s probably the easier of the two.

samus12345,
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But what if they cremate you? Better be safe and also swallow some mercury zinc batteries so your corpse will explode during cremation if they go that route.

Dark_Arc,
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I just wanted to say thanks … I’m having a bit of a bad day and that genuinely made me laugh out loud

samus12345,
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Glad to hear it. Hope things get better!

aeronmelon,

Wouldn’t swallowing plutonium dioxide be the reason you end?

SasquatchBanana,

They’re saying if you are lying in a hospital bed with a terminal diagnosis at the end of your days you should swallow the balloon.

Anticorp,

Where do I procure said balloon if I’m lying in a hospital bed at the end of my days?

LesserAbe,

You’re right. Also from what little I understand about radiation seems like you might want to take some more definitive action too rather than give the polonium time to finish the job. It would probably be more unpleasant than however else you were going to die

Setarkus,

Either way, it’ll be shortly before the end. You can’t lose this one :D

synapse1278,
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What about the “weird black mold” ? Is this something real ? Like some radiation resistant mold that has been observed ?

cynar, (edited )

It might not be related, but they’ve found mold inside the reactor room of Chernobyl. Apparently it’s evolved a chlorophyll like molecule that captures gamma radiation. It’s literally living of the energy that makes the environment lethal to almost anything else (organic or electronic).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus#:~:te….

Edit. Just checked and it’s not confirmed how it’s growing. They do know it grows significantly faster in a high radiation environment. They haven’t pinned down the exact biological mechanism.

Oh, and yes, it’s black in colour.

Anticorp,

So theoretically, there could be organisms living on the surface of the sun?

FlihpFlorp,

I don’t think I had this one on my apocalypse bingo sheet

misterundercoat,

I, for one, welcome our new gamma mold overlords.

Bdtrngl,

Couldn’t be any worse than the overlords we have now.

bionicjoey,

Oh cool so we have protomolecule now?

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