Best of 2008

A SWEET GOODBYE

After an emotional day that included a memorial attended by hundreds of mourners and a private funeral, Michelle Williams joins friends and family of Heath Ledger as they plunge into the ocean to honor the late actor in February at the Indiana Tea House on Cottesloe Beach in Australia. "It's exactly what Heath would have wanted," a mourner told PEOPLE.

Remember Heath, Bernie Mac, Tim Russert and more stars we lost this year in our Tributes gallery.