You don't deal with death. It deals with you. In a short span when I was younger, a friend killed himself, my great grandmother died at 99 years 11 months of a

You don't deal with death. It deals with you. In a short span when I was younger, a friend killed himself, my great grandmother died at 99 years 11 months of age, an acquaintance died in a car accident, and an old friend's brother died in a freak golf accident from a brain aneurysm. It's not an exaggeration to say it all changed my life permanently. My advice is to let it. Don't go stoic and pretend it is something that happens every day. There is a quote by Camus that gives you a sense of the solemnity and the terror of the thing: "Don't wait for the Last Judgment; it happens every day." This one may not be for everyone, but John Donne wrote some words about death that I have found useful at these times. "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." http://www.online-literature.com/donne/409/ http://www.online-literature.com/donne/409/ Those words are not just about your friend... they're about you. Death is deeper than cells and physics. Be involved in mankind. Don't be an island. Lean on your friends and family. And take time to process things. Life can wait.