Grief and joy from death primarily affect the living, not the dead.

Evidence

Theirs is the grief or gladness your death brings. … Theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 84

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 84