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Collected Item: “How to Get to Heaven Faster”

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How to Get to Heaven Faster

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Cartoon

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This is a cartoon by The Onion, a news outlet that satires our society. It is showing that people who go to bars, sporting events, and parties get to heaven on the fast track. in other words, they are the ones who die or will die from COVID-19. Those "lucky" souls get into the VIP line, while the old folks who pass away from natural causes have to wait and show "two forms of ID."
Those revelers sure look happy though, don't they? Was all the partying worth it?

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party, crowds, concerts, bars, humor, heaven, death, stadiums, sports

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

The Onion

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2020-06-16
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