1.   People were starving, people were lying on the road.

2.   Some people lie in the sun.

3.   And even at that, Gerard Nirascou of Le Figaro wrote, people might be lying.

4.   And when people did lie, they felt the interaction was less pleasant and intimate than when they told the truth.

5.   As people lay trapped in the rubble, some would-be rescuers were driven off for fear they were looters.

6.   Afterward, nine people lay on the carpet dead.

7.   All of these stories are suspect, not because the people are consciously lying but because memory is mutable.

8.   But people do lie.

9.   But people do lie, about their history and many other things.

10.   Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has concluded from this that at a funeral, most people would rather be lying in the coffin than giving the eulogy.