that reminds of a funny thing that my mum said recently when she was in hospital with breathing difficulties from cancer

the hospital chaplin was doing his rounds and came to her bedside. he started rabitting on, but she had to stop him and get a nurse to take her to the toilet. when she came back he'd gone, so she said to the nurse "i've scared the parson away"

the nurse said "it's alright dear, you've got plenty of life left in you yet"

the nurse had misheard her and thought that she'd said "i'm scared of passing away"

bless her, even in such a dark hour there was still humour with her