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SCNR: Sorry, could not resist.

Charitably, I suspect it's an inside joke?

probably just a joke referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich

Ah, that explains it. Thank you for digging that up.

I've worn my best a couple of times in the last few months, it's been enough with the Grim Reaper for a while for me, so I'm not too easily amused by the subject.

I'm still alive!

Actually it's a brilliant novella and I recommend everyone read it. Biting social critique of bourgeois values:

http://www.classicallibrary.org/tolstoy/ivan/1.htm