Eat Right, Stay Fit, Die Anyway

A three part design from Illustrated Aphorisms illustrates the problem. In the first panel, a silhouette stick figure sits at a table with a fork in hand, preparing to devour a carrot, banana, and tomato. Floating about the figure's head is the caption "Eat Right."

In the second panel, the figure poses in a running position, exhaling a breath as though from exertion. Floating above is the caption "Stay Fit."

In the third panel, the figure is flat on its back, arms and legs sticking up in the air from rigor mortis. The caption reads "Die Anyway."

Frank Rawland, the primary conceptualist, imagineer, designer, and administrative assistant at Illustrated Aphorisms, was responsible for creating the design in April, 2008. "When I started out I was thinking I ought to do something inspirational," said Rawland. "Sort of in the mode of a Plan For Life or Plan For Living. But the longer I worked at it the more pointless and futile creating a Plan For Life seemed. I kept coming back to the realization that every life ends the same way."

llustrated Aphorisms was founded in 2008 to promote the edification and all around betterment of humanity through the online sale of edifying and better-amating visual design innovations. These designs have been applied to t-shirts, jerseys, hoodies, totes, posters, calendars, mugs, buttons, refrigerator magnets, greeting cards, buttons, caps, and items of a similar nature that people really need. Even if they don't always realize it.

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