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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES LIVES A MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished; And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation , then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!