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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. ....
Covid is reshaping death and maybe life We will remain for the foreseeable future, masked and semi-isolated, in a world as suddenly vulnerable to pestilence as it was in 1918 (AP)Premium Katy Butler Share Via Read Full Story The desire to die in the presence of those we love is so deeply ingrained that during the Civil War, soldiers dying on battlefields pulled out family photographs to create the experience in their imaginations. In 2020, the face-to-face family death vigil largely became an impossible luxury. While relatives wept on sidewalks, people with Covid died in isolation by the tens of thousands, attended only by masked nurses and aides holding iPads and dressed in hazmat suits. ....