Death always comes at the worst possible time

That's what jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon told the audience when a member of the band died the night before the concert, The subject may be dark but we can keep it light. As the now late Joan Rivers said, “I've had so much plastic surgery I'm going to leave my body to Tupperware.” So, no TS Eliot bangs and whimpers and no downers like “all paths of glory lead but to the grave”.We're going with George Burns who said in his late 90's, “I can't die, I'm booked”. I did have a bad moment when Lord Martin Rees said on a TED talk that when the sun burns out the world will die in 50 million years. That's a relief. It might have been this year before Christmas, which would be the worst possible time for me. Orwell said, “you can't be a Catholic and a grownup”. Lighten up George. Mel Brooks said that if he got to heaven the first thing he was going to do was find out where Hedy Lamarr lived. The lyrics of the song “Life is just a bowl of cherries” instructs us: “Don't take it serious, life's too mysterious, so live and laugh at it all”. We thought Robin Williams would always leave us laughing. Instead, he left us weeping.