It took only a day or two after I had died for well-meaning journalist friends to ask the question you’d expect.

“So you went to the other side,” they asked. “What was there?”

My response disappointed them and was less certain than the one Kerry Packer gave a few decades ago.

Mine was: “I don’t know because I don’t remember a thing. Before, during or after.”

His was the more definitive (as you’d expect of a billionaire): “I’ve been to the other side and there’s nothing there.”

A few weeks later, a well-wishing man of the cloth asked me a similar question but with a bit more needle. “I hear you went to the other side but can’t report what you saw there,” he messaged. “Which leaves me wondering what sort of journalist you really are!”

It was tempting to respond that his question left me wondering about him. But I had already........

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