1. The value of widowers’ annuities is only slightly age dependant.

2. Widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses cannot apply online for survivors Benefits

3. Their refusal to acknowledge the hitherto unfair rating of widows, widowers and single people.

4. Many curmudgeons got that way by becoming widowers, so a happily married man can always aspire to Curmudgeonliness by outliving his wife