My condolences to his family. His horrifically difficult time is over but not for his family, so may peace come when it can.

I sit on that agnostic fence, don't really believe in god or another plane of existence after this one, nor do I really go outta my way to say there isn't one either.


But...in the case of this young man, all I have to say is, I hope beyond hope, there is something greater beyond this, some other ethereal plane of existence, some sort of after-place or rebirth of the dispersed energy that was once our bodies into some kind of great cosmic collective of all the energy that ever was, is, and ever shall be in the universe. A reality of our elegant universe so wondrous and magnificent that we, as a simple scientific fact, cannot comprehend in any way, shape, or form because we simply have not evolved enough to be capable of doing so.

Godspeed lad, may you dream, and pluck your guitar, up, up, up in the clouds...forever.

I have the same thoughts.

as to what happens next...I think Zach himself said it best, if I can quote to the best of my memory from the end of his "My Last Days" YouTube video:

While the rest of us are squandering our lives, only thinking of ourselves; people like Zach are out there living real meaningful lives, taking nothing for granted. He will be missed.