as my father used to say:

Where there's a will, there's a relative.

So I don't know in the end how it all works when there is no body to bury.
The two theories of how my friend died are:
Suicide or siezure.

Since he had made a lot of friends here at IDT - but most of them weren't in regular contact, I've had this horrible spotlight for the past 2 days as the vultures circle around picking up as much of what happened as they would like to hear...

Well ain't I a cheery bear?