Ambrose of Milan

What shall I say about the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue, at whose death the people were mourning and the flute players were playing their music? In the belief that she was indeed dead, solemn funeral services were being performed. The spirit returned immediately at the voice of the Lord, she arose with revived body, and she partook of food to furnish proof that she was alive.

On the Death of Satyrus 2.82 ↗

Bede

But he said: Do not weep. She is not dead, but sleeps. Dead to men, who could not raise her, she was sleeping to God, in whose power her soul was received and lived, and her body, to be resurrected, rested. Hence, the Christian custom has prevailed that the dead, who are undoubtedly to be resurrected, are called sleepers, just as the Apostle: "We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who sleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest who have no hope" (1 Thess. IV). …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

Second, as regards the suitable persons testifying concerning natural death, it is added: And they all wept and mourned for her, as though she were dead, according to the counsel of Ecclesiasticus thirty-eight: "My son, shed tears over the dead, and as one suffering grievously begin to weep." They wept with tears and mourned with voices of lamentation, as was the custom of the Jews; Jeremiah nine: "Call the mourning women, and let them take up a lamentation over you." Or they wept on account of the loss of life and mourned on account …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 8 ↗