Grammar, please

[butterflydreaming]

Which is correct when one person is alive and the other is deceased?

1."They both knew how to... ."
2."They both know how to... ."

Awkward no matter which.

Comments

[mysticalforest.livejournal.com]

Can you make one of them a zombie? Because that would solve it and be cool. :)

Barring that, what the_sybil said.

[shadow-and-veil.livejournal.com]

Especially because it would be a zombie Freddie Mercury.