death

Whilst on a placement I was treating a patient who had a chronic disease, the patient was a teenager and was in following an exacerbation. The patient was pleasant and completed physio well, and I had developed a good rapport with them after a few sessions.
After having a normal week of treament the weekend came and went and on returning on Monday and reading through the notes I noticed an incident had happend to the patients friend who also had the same chronic disease. The friend had been admitted to ICU with an exacerbation and on reading further I found they had passed away, the patient I was treating had also gone to visit them whilst they were in ICU. And had been informed and Psych involvment had already commenced.
On going to treat the patient I was unsure of wheter to mention what had a happend or not, as we got talking it came up that the patient hadn't had much sleep over the weekend and it was here that I mentioned as tactfully as I couldd that I had heard about what happened. I left it at that and continued to treat the patient. The patient was a little flat throughout the session which was in the gym, however I tried to not focus on what had happened and talk about anything else, and we did this without concern.

Just wondering if anyone can add their experiences to this. In my opinion it's not really our place to probe situations like this however I'm sure sometimes they are unavoidable and when this occurs the utmost compassion and consideration should go in to what is said