Doesn't "Post Mortem" imply analysis after failure? I'd say he was successful. :-)
Normally in tech, a post-mortem is a particular kind of analysis, backtracking from an incident to figure out what caused it, with the aim of preventing it happening again and improving quality overall (aka "incident report").
There have also been a number of "startup postmortems" recently, which means just as it sounds.
I think it's referencing the fact their body has 'failed' i.e. died. Not that they were a failure in life. A post mortem is usually carried out to figure out why the person died i.e. what part(s) of their body failed.
Post-mortem is widely used to refer to analysis of a completed project, failed or otherwise.