It is selfish for us to forget this in the absorption of our own grief.
Should we not be willing to endure loss and pain that those dear to us may receive gain and blessing?
Even in life's relationships on the earth we are continually taught the same lesson.

Parents must give up their children, losing them out of the home nest, that they may go forth into the world to take up life's duties for themselves.

Then also the separation is painful, but it is borne in the sweet silence of self-denying love.

We give up our friends when they are called from our side to accept other and higher places.

Life is full of such separations, and we are taught that it is our duty to think of others, bearing our own loss in patience for their sake.