On the state of (some) marriages

I just read this joke in Esquire this morning. Apologies if it has already been posted.

A man goes to his doctor and discovers that he has only one day to live. When he goes home, he decides there is only one thing he wants to do, and that is to have sex. After several hours of intense sex, he turns to his wife, and asks for one last time. With exasperation, she says “Look – I have to get up in the morning – you don’t!”
While physician acquainted himself with a new elderly patient, he asked, 'How long have
you been bedridden?'

After a look of complete confusion she answered . . .
' Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive.'