Dave,
Very thoughtful and respectful post – it reminded me of losing my own brother, who was only 42. Radiolab.org has a podcast on death, in which they mention the notion that we die 3 times – when our heart stops, when we are interred, and finally, when the last mention of our name is heard. Seems scarily relevant to our online identites – the show described the dead as lingering and longing for the last death…