Essay at the Globe and Mail: Grief and COVID19

Essay at the Globe and Mail: Grief and COVID19

Grief in the time of coronavirus: How will the way we mourn change?

Read this article at @globeandmail! Ashes to ashes, adjust adjust: The ancient, deeply human instinct to physically gather in times of death has now run up against social-distancing practices. But COVID-19 might just serve as an opportunity to make the ways we grieve better. As concern over the pandemic of COVID-19 increases, religious institutions and funeral homes have been ordered to halt gatherings for the purpose of “social distancing,” a means of limiting the person-to-person spread of contagion. [READ MORE]