So sorry for your loss Robdar..
I believe that sometimes they do come back and talk to you. My hubby came back to me in a dream and it was so real...it was a few months after he died but he was laying next to me in bed and hugging me. Then he said "I have to go now" and I knew he was right. I quit crying so much after that night.
I am in my 60's and yes I have reading glasses lol But seriously I have lost a few friends in their 50's. Funny thing is one of my Drs that treated my high blood pressure when I was fifty died suddenly and he was 50 just like me. He was a heart Dr and he had a stroke!!! I had one die before that and he was only a few years older than me (cancer).Then I had another Dr die on me.(also cancer) He was older .....but mostly I started hearing about friends dying in theirs and my 50's. It got so for a while the Obits were the first thing I would read..
I really got tired of losing all my Drs...now I figure I know more than they do cause I'm still here..