Of particular irony is the fact that her fan club titled their article with a celebratory cheer addressed to Ms. Rand, a devout atheist who didn't believe in an afterlife. If she was correct in this philosophy, then she's not just dead, she no longer exists!
Ayn Rand as a self-conscious, living person no longer exists. (For theists, try to imagine what it was like for you before you were born. You actually can't, even though you know that at some point you didn't exist. Well, that's death as well.)
Of course, as I wrote, on Rand's birthday "we celebrate her great achievements and the legacy that she left us all!" Such ocassions are for -- to use the title of Rand's great anti-communist novel -- we, the living!