The Dearest Ones Gone So Far!
However, in a sense it brings them to life in their imagination and gives them something by which to remember them. In our concious and subconscious mind, we do tell stories stories about them: the happy things, the funny things, the sad things, the unusual things that happened, which sum up their life.
Talking about these and the enduring qualities which describe what they were really like as a person, help us build a picture of what they were and for what they were, in our subconscious mind.