When those around you are hurting, you hurt.  This is empathy.  You feel their pain for you all are
connected.  What happens to one truly
does happen to all.  This is
oneness.  You band together when there is
a loss for the heart knows no other way. 
Like a moth to a flame, the spirit ensures that those who are hurting
are surrounded by love and are supported. 
It is the same at all levels of existence, whether in physical form or
not.  Those who are hurting are met with
love and are supported upon crossing the veil. 
As above, so below.  Whether human
or spirit, God sends angels to lift those in pain. 
You are the eyes and ears, the hands, and arms and legs of Spirit.  It is empathy and compassion which set you in
motion.  Love in action.  It is a beautiful thing.