The Difference Between Death and a Break Up

Every loss is felt at 100% no matter what it is. But i can't help but notice that there's a really stark, important difference between losing some one to death and losing someone through a break up. People who die are dead and gone, while people you break up with are still living. We have no choice when it comes to death. It's a sucky, inevitable part of our humanity. A break up is an active decision to no longer do life with someone. And the hardest part of a break up is not that the relationship is over,. It's that you have to watch them keep on living without you. Death made it so those things don't get to happen