We have the best on the net, right here, step this way. Most received the news that Beck had died via email. There is such a rightness in that. When Rebecca Boone died, the Internet mourned. In small Alabama towns, when someone dies, you place a small notice in the newspaper and the church bulletin runs a short memorial.
People gather at the eldest daughter's house, with offerings of potato salad and ham.
But when Beck died, her online family was legion. They were the wind. They mourned Beck in Norway, in France, in Israel and in England. While Beck had no children, it was accepted that she loved her forum coordinator, and Melynn was offered the respect due the eldest daughter. They sent cyber sympathy cards, cyber flowers, cyber meals.