We were informed one day during a game that a fellow gamer had passed away on the island (Vancouver, Island, British Columbia, Canada). We did not know the deceased personally, but felt like we had lost a brother gamer (a miniatures gamer for over 30 years). We were then informed that the his wife was planning to auction off all her husband's wargaming stuff. The gamers in our gaming room started imagining all the stuff the late wargamer had -- it reminded us of the old newspaper illustrations from just after the first Boer War of 1879-80, when the surviving British soldiers are depicted bidding on the belongings of their dead comrades (a custom in the British army of the time).