Julian's family know that Julian lives on because of who he was and what he did and the way that this affected so many other people.

Here are twp poignant expressions of this conviction.

Sent by Zelda [an Orkney friend]

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
 
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                                      i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
 
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
 
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
 
                                                    e. e. cummings

Sent by Bruna [Fiona's sister]

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten,

and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

                                                            Samuel Butler [1912]