So true! And even the retired Reaper might have to reap himself! What's the world coming to? It's like the Lord High Executioner having to cut his own head off! From Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado"...
(I'm a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta fan by the way!)
And so we straight let out on bailA convict from the county jail,Whose head was nextOn some pretextCondemned to be mown off,And made him Headsman, for we said,"Who's next to be decapite'dCannot cut off another's headUntil he's cut his own off,His own off, his own off,Until he's cut his own off."And we are right, I think you'll say,To argue in this kind of way;And I am right,And you are right,And all is right — too-loo-ral-lay!