http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/07/28/carlin.album.ap/index.html

Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death — and making it the butt of his jokes.

“You know what I’ve been doing? Going through my address book and crossing out the dead people. It gives you a feeling of power, of superiority, to have outlasted another old friend”