A friend of mine had a kid three days after another friend of mine died . . . and gave her kid the name of my late friend. The new mom barely knew my late friend and certainly had no idea she had died (she, you know, was pretty focused on the whole being pregnant thing that week), it was a total coincidence, and yet it still took me two years to be able to refer to her daughter by name instead of as "friend's daughter."

Why would you do this on purpose? Why?