A few years back I lost a friend to cancer and while he was going through it we would exchange emails and keep upto date with his condition. Well this went on for many years and I always thought he would make it. Sadly I was wrong and he passed away. I still have his email address in my contact list. Its an email that I think will be forever kept open as most of the web email providers never delete your account.
So every now and then when I get a good joke or something that I know he would have liked, I still forward it to his email. It never comes back as undeliverable. I know that I will never get a response but I still do it.
God Bless,
N4KMA