The Good and The Dead

“Why so glum, Jerry? It wasn’t your funeral.”

“Amanda, that eulogy! I couldn’t recognize Paul --‘A good shepherd?’--Don’t make me laugh.”

“Paul always looked out for Number One, it’s true, but—”

“So why avoid it? You know everyone is saying the same thing as they drive home. Paul was money grubbing and—”

“Hey! ‘De mortuis nil nisi bonum.”

“What?”

“Latin, ‘Nothing but good about the dead.’ “

“So?”

“People have always wanted to close the books positively. See the donut, not the hole. What should I say at your funeral after I murder you?”

“Good point.”