Lol that is cute. Although the first thing that came to my mind was we are dead either way, really. Unless of course he meant death in some "death of the soul" sort of way rather than literal death.
That's the rub on 'sound bite' quotes -it's hard to understand the context. My intrepretation is that John was not talking about a physical death (after all, there are plenty of 'alive' idiots in the world ;) ). Rather, he wa...