How to Coupe with Death?

How to coupe with death? Well, there's plenty of ways to deal with it. For instance, Tim O'Brien. When Tim was about 9 years old he had a crush on Linda, they were in the same grade. I guess he was head over heals over her, but then agian it was only a 9 year old crush. But this crush was something else. Anyway, Linda had a brain tumor, really bad. She had died and it broke Tims heart. After her death, Tim would dream of her to bring her back to life. That's how he couped with her death and that's how he started writing war books. Memories of those who died and bringing them back to life in his writings. And yet after 40 some odd years he still dreams of her, he still loved her. I guess that's a way of getting over a death of a love one, just dream of them and they'll come back to life in your memory. What do you think? How do or would coupe with losing a close personal friend?