An elderly couple are both lying in bed one morning, having just awakened from a good night's sleep. The husband takes his wife's hand but she cries, "Don't touch me!"
"Why not?" he asks.
She answers back, "Because I'm dead".
The husband says to her, "What are you talking about? We're both lying here in bed together and talking to one another".
The wife says, "No, I'm definitely dead."
Her husband insists, "You're not dead. What in the world makes you think you're dead?"
His wife answers, "I know I'm dead because I woke up this morning and nothing hurts!"