Saying Goodbye Is......

How do we say goodbye to someone? For me it's one of the words I hate to say. I hate to say goodbye even if it's just for a while, and much even for good.
This morning, I attended a funeral of one of my closest friend's father who died of old age. Dying for me is so inevitable, it's no respecter of age or gender. Everything and everyone has an end, has a goodbye. No matter how I hate it, no matter how I hate saying it, somehow too often I need to yield to it.... So many goodbyes had gone, most of them are painful. I don't even want to remember them. It always gave me a feeling of sadness, of loneliness, of brokeness.....
How do we say goodbye?! Goodbye to someone we dearly love. To someone who is your life? Can we ever say it without the heaviness in our hearts, without that something hard to swallow feeling on your throat...... Tell me, how do we say goodbye without the tears.....welling up in your eyes....