What do we do with grief?

What do we do with grief?
I know that we were in fact talking about the gospel as comedy, but I wanted to take a look at grief, through comedy, through the eyes of one of my favorite films, Moulin Rouge. The premise for the film is about a young man, who goes to Paris in search of all of the things he holds dear, that being truth, beauty, freedom, and love. This young man finds a girl in the city, a courtesan, and in the end, this girl that he falls in love with, dies.
I consider this film to be rather unique in that it is actually classified as both comedy, and tragedy. It is this factor that immediately made me think of it when Leeper said that comedy and tragedy are intertwined, and without having one, you cannot really understand the other. This is one of those films that on a personal level inspired me to see beyond the simple story, and to see the deep, rich life that characters can have. In the film,  there is a lot of dancing, singing, (and frankly, a lot of humor related to sex), but in the end, when the film has gone through it all, it is simply...sad. Not heartbreaking, because the comedy in it has lifted us from that, and the relationships that we have watched forum in front of us carried us through the rough places, but sad. Sad, because we know it's true. Because sometimes the happy ending just can't be there.
Despite this sad ending, I have returned to this film again and again. Because it holds truth in it, for me. Truth about following your dreams despite the hardships, and truth that even through sometimes something is sad in the end, that doesn't mean that it wasn't worth having to begin with.
In that sense, what do we do with grief?
Those with healing abilities, the artists of the world, help us to see and deal with grief, in the only meager ways we know how, but even then we are still left wanting something more.
The only thing I know for sure is that grief cannot defeat us. Because if it does, we will have nothing to live for. We cannot give up on hope, because with hope we cannot live to our fullest.
We find a certain life source within the media, this is why we have favorite films. We learn, and gain energy from good media.
Tragedy may be unavoidable and inevitable, but comedy comes along with it, unforeseen, and joyful, lifting us up from the dark place we were before.
We cannot deny the tragedy of our world, but humor is our defiance to the human condition. We cannot afford to be numb, when there is so much at stake. We must find ways to deal with our grief, intertwining it with the cosmic irony, so we can move forward towards our goal.