What’s the worst thing about being dead?
Not being there for the usual glowing eulogy and the party afterwards.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• The fact that you’ll probably never know you are.
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia
• I’d rather not know.
E Slack, L’Isle Jourdain, France
• Waiting to see what my next reincarnation is going to be.
John Benseman, Auckland, New Zealand
• Not being able to tell the tale.
Jennifer Horat, Lengwil, Switzerland
• I don’t know, and I’m certainly not volunteering to find out.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Not being able to answer your N&Q question.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• Not seeing what’s happening!
Edward Black, Church Point, Australia
• Never knowing how it all turned out.
Bridget Wilcken, Sydney, Australia
• Not being able to appeal your last tax assessment.
James Isles, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
• Missing one’s funeral.
Amy Gibson, London, UK
• You can’t exercise to relieve the stiffness.
Bernard Galton, St-Nazaire-sur-Charente, France
• Somebody will get your last words wrong.
Donna Samoyloff, Toronto, Canada
• The smell.
Roger Morrell, Perth, Western Australia
• I suspect it will be life’s lost opportunities.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
Dating online, perhaps?
Where have all the wallflowers gone?
Nowhere. Unnoticed then, unnoticed now.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• They met their match.
Jim Dewar, Gosford, NSW, Australia
• To computer dating sites.
Malcolm Shuttleworth, Odenthal, Germany
• They’ve been picked by other young girls and may be dancing with them – or even marrying them.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• They got married.
Greg McCarry, Sydney, Australia
• Gone to Sisterhood Dances everyone!
Judy Gillett-Ferguson, Gawler, South Australia
• Hidden away and a long time passing.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• Wallflowers are now clinging to selfie sticks.
Jennifer Rathbone, Toronto, Canada
The single malt? No way!
Which of your vices would be hardest to relinquish?
The use of products derived from the deposits of the Carboniferous period in the Palaeozoic era.
Anthony Walter, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• Scotch, the only vice (as some would call it) I have and will be last thing I would want to drink before I depart this world.
Vipen Sawhney, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Any answers?
As our new year begins, what in the world should we be hoping for?
Loine Sweeney, Adelaide, South Australia
What are men without their dignity?
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
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