There is a belief I have heard attributed to Native Ameircas that a person dies three deaths, the physical one, the one that occures when the last person who remembers them dies, and finally the last time their name is spoken. I suppose number three could occur prior to number two, but I like calling their names, keeping part of them with us.
And hell, after what he went thru in his time, his name should be called in ours.