Trying to remember a saying or the author of the saying having to do with getting...

[VampireDog]

...up in the morning and? checking the obituaries to make sure you are still alive. Any body? Anybody?

 

[chickadee34]

Ben Franklin said something along those lines:

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." (Benjamin Franklin)