Her posthumous fate, suggests Reid (who has no religious faith), seemed preferable to heaven or hell: My wife is in there, somewhere, doing practical work: her organs and tissues are educating young doctors or helping researchers outwit the disease that outwitted her.
We were caterpillars, greedy worms condemned to toil on earth; the chrysalis was our coffin, but the butterfly's miraculous emergence symbolised the possibility of an afterlife, a chance for our souls to ascend to heaven.
Then they go to the big poupée heaven in the sky.
Furthermore (and Dacre would have been proud of this line), "the ABC has an endless list of progressive journalists and hosts sharing their perspectives and an absence of hosts or programmers who are mainstream or, heaven forbid, conservative".
But Obama hasn't exactly moved heaven and earth to differentiate himself from Romney on energy.
Some days I get up in these hills at first light and I'm above the clouds – I feel like I've died and gone to heaven".
Would football – heaven forbid – need to end? "You should never think it'll be for ever; we're constantly changing Football Focus," he says.
"The unjust distribution of good persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers".
Could they even - heaven forbid! - be sold on eBay?
This does not stop the shameless duo from taking full credit for the manna from heaven, and doing their best to present the resulting boost to the economy as all part of their long-term plan.
