in reply to Perl Programmers Don't Die...
Wow -- so many good choices.
I'll go with getting stringified -- and can't be restored -- in memory of my father-in-law Peter, who left us last year. He's gone, but he leaves us with many happy memories.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds