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How COVID pandemic is reshaping rituals of death and the way we mourn Katy Butler FacebookTwitterEmail Until COVID-19 vaccination is widespread, the disease will continue to reshape how we die, how we honor the dead, how we mourn and how we live.Getty Images So ingrained is the family death vigil that during the Civil War, dying soldiers sometimes pulled out family photographs to create it in their imaginations. Today, while families cry on sidewalks, thousands die of COVID attended only by nurses and aides holding iPads and dressed in hazmat suits. Just as visceral is our unspoken promise to handle the bodies of the dead with reverence. In the powerful Greek tragedy, Antigone refuses to leave her disgraced brother’s body to be “chewed up by birds and dogs and violated.” Now, during COVID surges, the dead are stacked in refrigerator trucks.

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