Sheryl Sandberg on how to express sympathy

SAN FRANCISCO — The grieving Facebook executive took to Quora late Friday to answer the question on the minds of many: "How can we express our sympathy for Sheryl Sandberg after the tragic death of her husband?"

"I am so grateful for all of the people who have expressed sympathy and reached out. This is a generous and kind question and I am touched someone asked it," Sandberg wrote on the question-and-answer service.

Sandberg's husband, Silicon Valley executive Dave Goldberg, died suddenly last week while on vacation in Mexico with his family.

"For those who knew Dave, we are asking them to post memories and pictures of him on Facebook. They will live forever and our entire family will be able to read them all over time," Sandberg wrote.

She also suggested that parents embrace their families and their time together.

"One friend also told me that he canceled a planned work dinner last night to have dinner with his kids instead," she wrote. "We always went around the table and each of us said our best and worst of the day. The family rule is that you have to have a best but a worst is optional. I think there is no better way for any man or woman to honor the memory of my beloved husband."