[malandrew]

You're comment made me think of something else I read from time to time that resonates with me when someone passes away, especially if that person has contributed greatly like Paul has:

    No man is an island entire of itself; every man 
    is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; 
    if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe 
    is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as 
    well as any manner of thy friends or of thine 
    own were; any man's death diminishes me, 
    because I am involved in mankind. 
    And therefore never send to know for whom 
    the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. 

    –John Donne

https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html