Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.