Kham Kaew, a playful three-year-old elephant, amused tourists at a shrine in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the end of March.

Clearly the friendly elephant got a little too excitable and didn’t quite know its own strength. The baby elephant nudged the tourist. The nudge caused the tourist to fall off her feet.

I didn’t even see his response to my text until I had heard the news. I’ll forever miss getting those six little elephant emojis. When I say Will was a saint, that’s not something I put on him. It was ...