“You might be surprised just how much more human and alive than most people the dead are. They have nothing really to gain or lose, so all of their meanness is mostly gone. There are exceptions and such. Sure. But a dead friend is more than all my living friends combined — admittedly a small cadre. Nonetheless, they are loyal. Their loves and goals are noble. They stand by you. Forever. And what is even better is that they need special favors amongst the living, and some of those favors are so beautiful that if I had not done them I know I would not be human… or myself… I cannot even imagine how I would have come to understand anything about those matters that truly matter… and all of them… are relational…”

— an anonymous friend of the dead