For the dying and their loved ones, the pandemic has changed the process of death and grieving
Modified: 4/3/2021 9:38:32 PM
CLAREMONT After Natalia “Natasha” Brodeur died in a collision with a truck on Interstate 91 in late January 2020, friends and loved ones gathered to mourn her loss at the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church.
“Being together was just such a powerful experience,” Irene Kacandes, Brodeur’s friend and a fellow congregant at the church on Sullivan Street in Claremont, said in an interview last week via Zoom. It was “such a way to honor her, but also to wrap our minds around ‘What does death really mean?’ ”