Last June, a Warframe player, Yuri Hazumaki, died of a sudden, acute asthma attack. This occurred while she was playing, leaving her avatar standing in the hub city of Chrysalith, eerily still except for the odd idle animation. Not long after, her long-distance partner, Melliamber, relayed the somber news to the rest of the Warframe community. “This woman meant the world to me, to our friends, and our families,” Melliamber wrote on the Warframe subreddit. “She passed away while playing a game she loved with people who loved her.” Then they asked other players to stop by the in-game location where Hazumaki’s avatar continued to stand.
Over the course of the next 74…