After knowing full well that death is certain, if you still worry about somebody, it must be due to the attachment which you have developed for that body. It is this attachment which is responsible for all your grief. Therefore, when someone has died the primary cause for sorrow is attachment, not love. Basically, every human being, at all times, is a seeker of joy. He thirsts for joy and does not ever want sorrow.
Man always aspires for profit, never for loss.
That is his very nature. Every man, right from the beginning, would like to have only gain, not pain. For a business man, the first thing he thinks of is his profit. This is because the word for seven also means 'weeping'. The shopkeeper will use another word to avoid uttering this unhappy word.