Sorry to hear for their loss. It's tough losing coworkers. Feels like we've lost more than our fair share over the past several years. My old boss died suddenl

Sorry to hear for their loss. It's tough losing coworkers. Feels like we've lost more than our fair share over the past several years. My old boss died suddenly in an accident a number of years ago. Well-liked guy, been there for years, most everybody in engineering knew him. For some reason our leadership decided that they needed to have an all-hands -- the entire company -- where they announced that (these exact words) he "had been found deceased". Completely blindsided. Sudden all-hands meetings still make me nervous years later. In the context of this thread, I suppose what I'm trying to say is -- fully remote can create too much distance and that's not good. But at the same, you need to let people handle mourning in their own way. And maybe break the news gently.