Often names give us the clue or else the nature of our relationship with the person. Or the state of consciousness this person represented to you. In other words what that person means to us in terms of the intrinsic value. It is the part in you that corresponds and responds to the person who is dying is leaving you. And something in you wants to let it go but yet with a heavy heart perhaps.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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