What would Marcus Aurelius say about grief?

Grief is the tribute love pays to mortality. Do not be ashamed of it, and do not try to reason it away too quickly. Someone or something dear has been taken back into the order from which all things come. This was always the law, though affection made you wish for exemption. We suffer because we joined our life to what is passing, yet what other life was available to us? The task is not to become stone. It is to mourn without rebellion against nature. Recall what was given rather than accusing fate for its limit. Speak the name. Keep the memory clean. Let tears come if they come. But do not say that the universe has singled you out for cruelty; it has only done what it has always done. In time, your sorrow will teach you the cost and dignity of having loved at all.

— Marcus Aurelius