Life after death, how do we cope?

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I know people will tell you that life goes on after the death of a loved one but what they can never tell you is how. My mother died when I was young and I thought my whole world had come to an end but my father who I thought felt the same way ended up getting married again 8 months later. He married my mother's best friend whose husband had died 3 months before. Now don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge my father remarrying but I thought that maybe he could have waited longer than he did, not to mention the lady he married (for her it was only 3 months). Do you think it is so hard to cope when you lose a husband or wife to illness that you need to rush out and get married again straight away. What does that say about a person? How do you cope or how do you think you would cope?