[ValerieUSA]

You are so wrong.
He needs to memorialize his son as a father - not as a Senator.

[Wolfstar]

He and his wife ARE memorializing their son as parents. The need to memorialize a someone very dear who has passed is one of the most common grief responses. As I said in #24, there are probably as many ways this grief response manifests itself as there are people on the planet. If the cause of death was something that affects society at large, such as murder, kidnapping, terrorism, teenage suicide, drunk driving, etc., legislation to try to help minimize, if not prevent, such occurrences from happing to others is a common form of memorializing a deceased loved one.

[Wolfstar]

By the way, I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Sen. and Mrs. Smith's choice of legislation as a memorial to their son. I am merely explaining it. Memorializing the dead is as old as humanity, itself. It is one of the traits that marks us as human beings.