This strikes me as delusional

"University officials announced Thursday that Cho's victims would be awarded their degrees posthumously."

My sister keeps her husband's voice on the answering machine even though he died over a year ago. I would never tell her (and she doesn't read my blog) but I think that is kind of creepy and macabre. My mom's neighbor visited her husband's grave every day for over a year and a half. Everyone grieves in their own way and that is their right, but an institution pretending someone is not dead by awarding them degrees doesn't strike me as an honor but instead as a reminder to the families of what was not to be. It seems especially cruel.