The situation was certainly grave. The local parson had been called to the deathbed of a prominent attorney.
"How if the patient?" asked the parson.
"I'm afraid he's lying at death's door," replied the doctor.
The parson sighed. "Poor soul; going to meet his Maker and still lying ..."
---------------A Final Thought ...
"No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher