Of course in the 19th century grief was much more of a thing even for people -- it wasn't at all unusual for several of your children to die young, and even adults weren't immune to various epidemics like cholera. These days someone dying before being elderly is considered a freak tragedy rather than just a fact of life.
I guess I didn't need to go through the WHOLE day without crying
That opening picture did it for me. It reminded me of the loss of one of our dogs last year. We have a camera to keep an eye on the dogs (mainly to make sure our female doesn't chew something). At work a day or two after the dog was put down I was constantly bugged by the camera alerts, as the camera was picking up noise. That noise turned out to be our female howling away...for hours. I left work early, and worked from home the rest of that week. Few things break my heart, and that was one of them.