Death of a friend causes our world to stop for a minute. Death of a spouse causes our world to stop for a week. I've experience death from all angles, friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and most touching my wife. The experience never gets easy. And here's the link to a story I wrote when a friend of mine died suddenly: https://medium.com/crows-feet/sudden-death-reveals-its-ugly-self-again-my-friends-are-dying-b33566c2a4cd