And Torrential has said his piece about Silver. 

I do admit that for a little while I entertained the idea of an alicorn of burial rights and safe guarding the dead who got into a fight with Discord once upon a time and lost badly, being driven completely insane and sealed away by Celestia and Luna because they couldn't bare to kill him... only to have the cult wake him up because the laughing mare said he sounded like fun and they needed somepony new to play the trumpet.