in either Hartwell's or Silverberg and Haber's 2002 collection, actually. Except it wasn't for funereal or memorial purposes. It was an extension of legal definitions of personhood, and the story was all about the blurring of lines between people and computers and corporations, and between hardware and software. The story started out with a guy's eyeglass-computer being stolen and his not being able to remember even who he was without it, and wound up with a collective of people who would alternately or even simultaneously be "running Bob" on their wetware, Bob being a deceased supergenius whose imperfectly saved personality was trying to achieve legal status.

Stretching the definition of humanity was a common theme in both collections last year. Both included Robert Reed's "Coelocanths," about human evolution into additional physical dimensions. There was a comic story about collectives of incompetents that are functionally equivalent to one fully functioning human, and there was a very pretty low-tech story that I don't remember much of about people made up of anywhere from 4 to 16 independent bodies and minds.