If you find it depressing, that's up to you
I'm taking issue with saying something that's gone is not gone because it's still where it was in the past at that point in time.

Whereas it's gone, by the definition of "gone", so if that gone-ness is upsetting or disquieting to someone, you don't change anything about its gone-ness or their affect, you just dangle shiny sophistry to distract them. Which may have been your aim, but I suspect not.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 22:26, archived)

I think the problem may be with the word "gone" itself.
I suppose what I'm saying is that nothing is really ever literally gone at all. Or that "gone" doesn't strictly mean "non existent".
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 22:33, archived)