@grrrr_shark
Yah, as Dorothy Spring used to say, "people have the insufferably bad habit of dying".
So, the linkages in large numbers of distributed people can be very strange, and I have been one of those voices coming back
There was this old guy telling the void about soil survey trips he took in Africa when he was a fresh geologist, the Land Rover he rode in, and this very knowledgeable but irascible guy who led them. I could say, yes, that was my father, I was that kid that came along