After dealing with a clerk recently, I was wondering where the idea of “If you commit suicide, in the afterlife you become a civil servant” came from? That way I am prepared to deliver knowledge to the snotty indentured ones.
Until now I never thought that idea was commonplace. The only reason I am not saying “huh?” is that I wrote a screenplay on that very subject.
Obligitory mention of Beetlejuice where this saying plays a central role in the movie.
Zev Steinhardt
Beetlejuice is the first (and until now, only) place where I’d heard this idea.
Same here. Is it just an invention of the writer? Since they (suicide victims) can’t be jailed it’s kind of a community service sentence.
There was a b&w movie I saw a looooonnnnng time ago that kinda did the same thing.
It wasn’t the civil service though but a crew on a ship. The ship brought you to heaven but suicides never left the ship. They worked on it for eternity.
I’ve heard/read it before Beetlejuice came out. Interestingly searching the Internet doesn’t reveal anything close except maybe this, http://www.industrialfog.com/library/runningfrommyself.html, which is still an echo of the idea.