Due to my spiritual beliefs, we are very matter of fact about death in our family. We mourn the person because we'll miss them, but we accept death as merely another phase of the journey, and believe that we'll see them again, either on this plane, or another.

Now, I can't pretend I'd be so sanguine if it was my husband or my children who died. A friend of mine died this summer, followed 2 weeks later by my cat.