So, we'll never see our loved ones again?

[Gwaithmir]

"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant taste of death but once. Of all the wonders I have ever heard, it seems most strange to me that men fear death, since death, our necessary end, will come when it will come." (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) 

"Of all the souls I have met in my journeys his was the most...human."
 -unknown ship captain.

Capt. Kirk said that at Spock's funeral. That scene brought tears to my eyes the first time I saw it.