To them death is gain, promotion, translation.
The event itself, in its primary significance, is a joyous and blessed one.

The sorrow which we experience in their removal is but an incident.

God cannot take them home to glory from our side, without giving us pain.

But we must not reverse this order and think that the primary end of the calling away of our beloved ones is to chasten us, or to cause us to suffer.

No doubt there is blessing for us as well as for them in their leaving us, since all things work together for good to them that love God; but we unduly exaggerate our own importance when we think of God as laying a beautiful life low in death merely to teach us some lesson or give to us some blessing.
When we look at our bereavements in this light, and think of what death means to our beloved ones who have been taken from us, we find new comfort in the thought of their immortality, their release from suffering and temptation, and their full blessedness with Christ.