What weirds me out is the "still much loved" part. It directly implies that he might stop loving her someday, or that he could have already done so but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe I'm the odd one out here, but I'll never stop loving the people I loved and who died. I would never phrase it as "I still love them", because I will *always* love them, you know? It's just a small thing, I know, but it freaks me out.