What does Taoism say about death?

In my experience, Taoism treats death as part of the larger movement of life rather than as a metaphysical scandal.

Can Taoism help with grief?

Yes, though not cheaply. It helps by reducing grasping and by widening the frame around loss.

In my experience, grief becomes heavier when I also demand that loss should not have happened.
In my experience, Taoism was most useful around death where it refused sentimental control.
I’ve observed in students that many fears around death are really fears of release, not only of ending.
When I first practiced this, I noticed that impermanence hurt less once I stopped treating permanence as the default promise of life.
The sensation should be sorrowful but less argumentative, less clenched around what cannot be held.

I do not think Taoism gives a cheap answer to death.

That is one reason I trust it.

When I first sat longer with Chapter 50: Life and Death, I did not feel instantly soothed. I felt corrected.

The correction was hard: I was living as if continuation were owed.

In my experience, Taoism widened the frame.

Life and death stopped looking like absolute opposites and more like part of one larger movement.

That is why this page belongs close to returning and Taoism and Letting Go.

Taoism did not make loss painless for me.

It made my fight with impermanence less absolute.