My heart goes out to you. Even after a long and happy life, for which no regrets need be felt, the separation is hard.
Those of us who have trod the same path will be thinking of you.

I like the Bishop Brent verse on "What is Dying?" My brother in law found it comforting when his daughter died.

I am standing on the sea shore.
A ship at my side spreads her
white sails in the morning breeze
and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and I
stand and watch her until at last
she fades on the horizon.

Then someone at my side says,
"There, she has gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight, that is all.
She is just as large in the mast,
hull and spars as she was
when she left my side.
The diminished size
and total loss of sight
is in me and not in her.
And just at the moment when
someone by my side says,
"She is gone,"
others take up the glad shout,
"There she comes".

Bishop Brent 1862-1929
Bishop of the Philippines

Andrea