I got goosebumps reading this. Yes, sometimes the departed do say hi, especially as you recounted, through other people. Here's one such tale of mine: https://marcus17043.medium.com/my-eternal-flame-279e2dd4baf3

The synchronicity displayed in your story triggered my goosebumps. I have a pub dedicated to writing about all sorts and forms of synchronicity/contact from the beyond. If you're interested, give our pub description a read and LMK if you would like me to add you as a writer: https://medium.com/channspirations/submission-guidelines-ecdec63baba6

I think I also got goosebumps, which can be a signal from the beyond, because suicide is something I write about from time to time, with an eye toward attempt prevention, as a dear friend took his life about 17 years ago and conversations I had with his soul a number of years afterward helped me avoid making an attempt. Here's that story if you're interested: https://medium.com/illumination/dizain-of-suicide-72bcde4dc8d8

The essay starts with this poem I wrote:

Title: We Are Only As Sick As Our Secrets

Suicide provides no relief at all

On ledge imagining end to my pain

Pavement streaming toward me will not end fall

Just before break solution becomes plain

My penance to help others to refrain

Thought my loved ones better off without me

Truth’s too likely they’ll header into sea

Had I known that death cannot be cheated

Baring deep secrets would cure malady

Death would not have left loved ones defeated