“Do not let this harden you,” he said. “If you lose your capacity to give and receive love, you’ve lost everything.”

Rosen hosted a reception following the service, during which multiple screenings of a video of candid photos featuring Fonseca and his friends’ were shown.

Randy D. Xu ’04, who served on the HRTV executive board with Fonseca, said the entire HRTV executive board started the project last Saturday and pulled three all-nighters in a row to finish the video.

The video included footage of Fonseca’s trip to Montreal with friends over reading period and humorous outtakes from a small role he played in “Ivory Tower.”

Benoit said she regretted that she would never have the opportunity to talk to Fonseca again.

“I’ll never get to hear him tell me what was most important to him,” she said. “I hope he knew—or now knows, looking down on us—how much he meant to all of us.”

A ruling on the cause of Fonseca’s death is pending the results of an examination by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

A Cambridge Police Department spokesperson said Feb. 22 that Fonseca’s death appears to be a suicide. If ruled a suicide, his death will be the 14th student suicide at Harvard since 1990, according to University spokesperson Joe Wrinn.

Fonseca’s death comes about one year after the suicide of Marian H. Smith, Class of 2004. Smith, also a Winthrop resident, took her own life in December 2002.

—Staff writer May Habib can be reached at habib@fas.harvard.edu.