Buddhism, ignorance, death, and grieving

If we deeply understand impermanence, karma, Sankara, and emptiness... Conditioned phenomena, and Dependent arising... Then do we experience grief, mourning, and loss at moment of learning about the death of another person... Say a loved one?

Isn't it a cold world in which a stoic person does not cry over their mother's passing?

Or is the imagined 'coldness' a function of the abstracted ego of the survivor, perceiving suffering due to attachment and clinging?

I'm in awe at how deep we need to go to be unmoved by the loss of loved ones. I guess this is what makes true Buddhists 'leave the world', join monasteries, and retreat to caves.

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