Smile, while you can

14th November 2003, 12:00am
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them to buy a group picture. “Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer. She’s a lawyer’, or, ‘That’s Michael. He’s a doctor’.”

A small voice at the back of the room added: “And there’s the teacher.

She’s dead.”