Tove Jansson

"Please," said Moomintroll. "Don't talk about him being dead all the time. It's so sad."
"When one's dead, then one's dead," said Too-Ticky kindly. "This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on there'll grow trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so sad?"
"Perhaps not," said Moomintroll, and blew his snout.