In situations of death and grief there is no single way to deal with it, it will depend on several individual aspects, as well as environmental and cultural ones. But in general, death is always faced in a difficult way by human beings, as it is interpreted as the end of a cycle of a life of someone you loved.
if your question is asking : What act of Parliament taxed paper items in order to raise money to help pay the government's debt? then the answer would be the stamp act.