Arafat : Really Most Sincerely Dead?

As I read the various stories and blogs regarding the confusion over Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's status, living or dead, I pictured a French doctor approaching the bank of microphones and uttering this declaration à la the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz movie:

As Coroner, I must aver,

I thoroughly examined him,

And he's not only MERELY dead,

He's really most SINCERELY dead.”

My apologies to Wizard of Oz purists for changing the pronouns.