My Grandfather died two years ago. I loved him very much. He was ninety two and not in the best of health, we had been expecting it for a while but just didn't know when it was going to happen. My grandmother having died a few years earlier and no immediate family being in close range, he was also very lonely. I at the time was several hours away and in school and did not get to visit him nearly as much as I wanted to. I did call him as much as possible just to say hello and let him know he was loved.
After he died, I realized I still had his number in my phone, but it didn't seem right to delete it so soon after his death. I knew I would never be able to call that number again, and I always had a moment of sadness while scolling through the Gs in my phone.
Now its been two years, and I've never deleted it. I want to remember the good times we had rather then the fact that I can no longer call him. I think he would want that too.