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Anna Zaltron is the first South Australian to have a digital memorial added to the headstone of her late son Anthony.
Trish Skinner and her husband sit on a couch, flip open their iPad cover, and open Zoom. Skinner is attending her father's funeral. Dozens of relatives will join her on this call.
One hundred miles away, near the southern English coast, someone holds up an iPhone as a coffin containing the body of Herbert John Tate, 103, is lowered into a wet, clay-lined grave.
The Zoom call is as much closure as Skinner, 72, can get -- at least for now.
"It's not how it's supposed to be," she says. "There's no interaction, physically. And that's the biggest thing that's missing during this terrible time."
Heidi Hussli, 47, died a little more than two weeks after her mother’s funeral, one of several family members who contracted the virus after attending gatherings to honor the beloved matriarch.
These families are turning their grief into action to save themselves and others — and to begin to heal our collective trauma.
When Anna Brasnett read about Meghan Markle's miscarriage, she wrote to us to share her own experience of dealing with the loss of her baby Julian and her father Richard.
When she began writing her new book, "Keep Moving," poet Maggie Smith had no idea how much the world would be suffering by the time it came out. Her "notes to self" have resonated deeply with many struggling to grieve our own mid-pandemic losses.
While her father was dying in Auckland, a Melbourne resident had no hope of travelling to be at his side amid the COVID-19 restrictions.
For many not directly affected by COVID-10, it may feel easy to feel disconnected from the confronting daily announcements, as the crisis is effectively hidden from public view.
While the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus continues to climb in Victoria, so too does the number of victims in intensive care, and the families behind the figures are struggling with the knowledge they may never be able to say goodbye.
My grandfather’s time was not up. His death should be treated as the tragedy it is.
The coronavirus pandemic will leave lasting emotional scars.
Patients, their families and their doctors need to be open about the inevitable as the virus sweeps through our population
Leah meets Joe, who tells her that dying was nothing like he had anticipated, and he and his friends discuss the impact this unexpected turn has had on how they view life
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After losing his father-in-law to cancer, David Perry warns that American society is unprepared for the titanic social and psychological toll of deferred grief building up as Covid-19 deaths continue and the pandemic prevents anyone from mourning with their own rituals of human connection.
We’ve all lost so much through the pandemic, but by making sense of it we can look forward
I watched my father die of this disease. Here's my story.
Last February, Nancy Chouinard took her father out to dinner. Two months later, the world had changed.
In this narrative medicine essay a medical student recalls discovering the power of meaningful palliative care, contrasting patients’ relief from suffering through caring and comfort with her father’s awful experience of pain and neglect in his closing days.
Miscarriage and baby loss are much more common than people think, and it affects people deeply. CNN's Alexandra King shares what to say to be supportive and what not to say that could make it worse.
With its daily tallies of those lost to disease, the coronavirus pandemic has brought death into sharp focus, especially for those who are older.
I try to make sense of her sudden absence but every hour, every minute, brings some new and usually terrifying development
Cindy Siegel Shepler had several chronic disease diagnoses and lived with severe pain and fatigue for decades. In choosing legal assisted death, she hoped to provide an example for Americans about a death with dignity.
Will these Zoom funerals be anything more than empty containers for unshed tears?
Families are already practising social distancing at funerals, with no hugs, no kisses and no handshakes. Funeral services may soon have to be live-streamed only.
The era of 24-hour news brings traumatic events directly into everyone's lives. Here's how that can affect people, especially children, and some strategies for coping.
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