My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

By someone who knew him much better than me: "I think Garret lived such a mentally sharp and active life for so long – still writing his regular economics column in the Irish Times to the end – because he was just so curious and endlessly interested in and enjoying the people around him."

"He was *my* taoiseach."

Dunno about you guys, but I too find it weird that the dead live on in cyberspace...

Timmi Duchamp on Joanna Russ, who died last week.

Rio le Moignan, talented author, poet and vidder, died in February.

Ron Asmus, the epitome of Euro-Atlantic diplomacy, has died - obituary from the Economist

Farah Mendlesohn's tribute to DWJ.

"The first fifteen months after the death of my boyfriend." Very moving piece. "His evangelical Christian parents saw it differently and chose to exclude me from his obituary and memorial service. It was a deep cut but it has healed. They barely knew him, let alone me."