From the long look forward they are removed, and every plan, imagination, and hope henceforth a silent and empty perspective.

But in the past they are all they ever were.

Now let me advise all who would comfort people in a new bereavement to talk to them, very freely, all they can, in this way of the dead.

They will engage in it with interest, they will talk of their own recollections of the dead, and listen to yours, though they become sometimes pleasant, sometimes even laughable.

I found it so.