A lot of folks were saddened by George Carlin's sudden death as they would have liked it better if he had suffered in an agonizing vegetative state for a year or more before croaking. Or, in a revised formulation: A lot of folks were saddened by George Carlin's sudden death as they would have liked it better if he'd suffered in agony as a vegetable for a year or more before croaking. {Carlin, from his bully pulpit, called for the extended sufferings & deaths of many. I'm waxing profanely, of course, in the spirit of Carlin.}