A marriage covenant, as you know, can be broken by adultery and divorce or ended by death. Death cannot break up a union forged by the love of God. Yes, what the doctor says is true. Loved ones do die. Your hand feels it, and the truth comes slowly home.
Life is gone.
At the same time you also know that the departed one lives, even without a body. Death is always gain for those whose living is Christ. And, we know that he or she is kept with and by and for the Lord. What comfort, what strength, what security this gives us poor, sinful creatures. Death is not the end for you or me or any loved one who knows the Lord.