A. woke up one morning to the utter surprise...

A. woke up one morning to the utter surprise that he was no longer alive. He saw nothing, felt nothing, heard nothing, and thought nothing. Something about all that nothing bothered A.'s soul, so being the selfish thing that souls tend to be, It made A. come back to life, as if nothing ever happened because A.'s soul failed to inform his conscience.

So A. lived for many years, had his times of joy and sadness, and then eventually died, this time for good, without ever realizing that he had already been dead.