[coldtea]

>because it implies that if one of us dies, the key worry of the management is who left who knows how to deploy the foo-banana service.

That will exactly be the key worry of the management.

We've had team members lost like that - and that was the worry.

They'll still feel sorry, say their condolensces, and might even go to the funeral, but in the end, the work continues - almost immediately.