How Do You Cope With The Passing Of A Friend? How Do You Cope With Death Itself?

How do you cope with the passing of a friend? 

How do you cope with death itself?

You don't! 

You can't!

Because there is no coping with death

It is so final

So meaningless

So senseless

And so wasteful

That coping seems like a cop-out

You question

You query

And you question again

What is death?

Is it the passing of a life force that once was vibrant

And now silent and and inert?

Is death the final cessation?

Damn!

You want to seize death by its throat

Squeeze the daylights out of it!

To remove and erase the last blot of Existence,

Its last failure and disgrace

And restore Existence's preeminence

That in Existence, there is no death

No cessation

Only eternity 

And life

That death is antithetical

And inconsistent

With Existence

Only life reigns,

Supreme!