0052 - Roast Beef is Feeling Pretty Nice! (Patreon)

(Note: precisely one minute after this strip posts, six rejected panels from it will post in the In-Universe and Author's tiers.)

If our bodies can release amazing trippy chemicals as we're dying, then (a) why do they wait until then to do it, and (b) how did this ability evolve into being? You'd think that by the time you were laying there dying, you wouldn't be able to influence the gene pool such that it selected for this characteristic. Perhaps the existence of this endogenous psychedelic passage indicates there is something else going on with the way our brains are built, and I welcome your bananas- or non-bananas-style guesses below. 

Baby, gimme your guesses.