De mortuis nil nisi bonum? Andrew Breitbart

I accept John Avalon of the Daily Beast's admonition "that reveling* in the fact that  [Andrew Breitbart] life is over is ‘uncool.’" [emphasis added], as death is the common fate.

But I do not have the Roman fear of lemures , and we are told "The evil that men do lives after them" (Julius Caesar, III,ii), nor apparently does his fellow Republican David Frum:

...it becomes difficult to honor the Roman injunction to speak no ill of the dead. It’s difficult for me to assess Breitbart’s impact upon American media and American politics as anything other than poisonous. When one of the leading media figures of the day achieves his success by his giddy disdain for truth and fairness—when one of our leading political figures offers to his admirers a politics inflamed by rage and devoid of ideas—how to withhold a profoundly negative judgment on his life and career? (Andrew Breitbart 1969-2012):

Nicely summarized, I think.