Quotes from Neil Gaiman, The Wake

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?""Then what died? who are you mourning?""A point of view.

But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.