The designer's posthumous homecoming to the street where, at age 16, he worked as an apprentice at the bespoke tailors Anderson and Sheppard and then at the neighboring Gieves and Hawkes, seems a fitting return to the company's British tailoring roots.
Auchincloss's posthumous book returns to the childhood territory covered in his classic memoir "A Writer's Capital".
The widower of a police officer who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has returned her posthumous 'Woman Of The Year' award after Caitlyn Jenner was the recipient of this year's accolade.
Debra Bassett, a doctoral candidate at the University of Warwick who researches the impacts of death in the digital world, believes that posthumous messages can help their recipients return to a place of grief when they need it most.
The posterity industry found a bonanza in Beethoven's afterlife, inflating his posthumous dimensions to such magnitude that returning to the career-hungry young composer who stalked the streets of Vienna in the 1790s is not easy.
This isn't just an issue for posthumous gifts.
And he keeps returning to Keats's other posthumous life, the one he had while still alive, and about which he wrote in November 1820, "I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence".
Several months before Mr. McDonagh's return, another British playwright will make a posthumous debut under more somber circumstances.
