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The prevailing social views would encourage you to dismiss my perspective on death as being insensitive, dissociated, or perhaps psychopathic. Try to see that there's a deeper level of compassion at work here though. I'm not trying to belittle the emotional pain people experience when their loved ones die. Rather I'm suggesting that death itself is not the source of that pain. The source of that pain is the unhealthy attachment to that which is by definition temporary. This realization is a way to genuinely transcend that pain by uncovering a greater truth, not a futile attempt to hide behind a shield of denial.
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Since when is it unhealthy to feel pain at the loss of a loved one? The pain does come from attachment to things that are temporary but why is that bad? Why would one value no pain over pain? Development isn't a way to transcend pain, on the contrary with development comes a greater and greater capacity for pain, a greater awareness of suffering and the realization that it is attachment by the ego... which is healthy. This is why you seem dissociated.