It pains me to admit it, but apparently, I have passed away.

"It pains me to admit it, but apparently, I have passed away."

Reminds me.

About two years ago I got an e-mail from an old Texas buddy, Phil Grouss, whom I had not talked to for a couple of years. The header was "Phil Grouss has left the building," and the body was something to the effect of "Hi, I'm dead now, so you might want to remove me from mass mailings and unfriend me on Facebook."

I thought it was a prank, because he was always a funny guy with a dark sense of humor. Well, I Googled his name and the word "obituary" and found out that, while he was being darkly funny of course, he really had died. It was a letter he had arranged to send to all of his acquaintances upon his demise. Heck of a way to say sayonara.