Remembrance of the public as well as the personal departed is a renewing experience for those surviving them, I’m convinced. One of my year-end rituals is to make a point of reflecting on those lists that start showing up of those we lost in public life during the preceding year. This, abit belatedly, is a thorough list of those in the arts who died in 2000. There are people on the list whose passing will diminish me, and surprises, people I did not know had left us. SF Chronicle