What to do

While walking back from the shop around the corner (having to have at least one ice lolly each day last week I developed an addiction to Fruit Pastil ice lollies, an addiction which is hard to break even though the holiday is but a distant memory) we spotted an oldish guy lying under a bush and a dog lying under the next bush. The wife decided he was dead but I reassured her that he is probably asleep in the shade on a hot day (spot which of us is the optimist and which is the pesimist). Now I’m wondering which of us was right. But then if he had breathed is last surely the dog would have been sitting at his side whimpering and barking as in the movies?