It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Quite easily, I should think.
All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.