Thank you for this.
Having just gone through losing one of my aunts, the closest person I've lost in 20 years now... it's true that no words are adequate. But a simple "I'm sorry." and "I'm thinking of you." is all that's necessary. Yes, "sorry" is very much over-used, but this is one place where it's very appropriate.
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Thank you @viking-ventures. It is true that it is in times of grief that the word sorry is appropriate. I think I pay too much attention to semantics and words being tools of communicating feelings and some times people say what they don't truly feel or understand even.
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It's okay. I am often heard telling my kids that I don't want "sorry" for this, that and t'other - for exactly the reasons you mentioned. The words have become cheapened. We (society) say "sorry" so frequently for meaningless (or disingenuous) things that it's easy to lose the words completely.