I was thinking the other day of the ceremony we had in DAoC, where we had a small but active community on the test server, Pendragon. One of our comrades in arms, Kaacruunch (SP?) had passed so we all sat in a big circle in Darkness Falls to pay our individual respects for him, before sacrificing our avatar lives, one by one, to that purple mob whose name I can no longer remember. Then one person who I partied and tested stuff with (who was also at the ceremony) stopped playing and I wondered where she went to. Several months later, she contacted me and told me she had been in the hospital for a long time because she almost died in an automobile accident.
Life certainly is precious and fleeting.
Rest in peace, sir.