Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Collective Grief

May 22, 2022

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

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Lynda – “Helping a griever during the pandemic”

May 15, 2020

Lynda shares tips on helping someone in grief

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Karyn and Aidan – Coping with the COVID restrictions

February 21, 2022

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they dealt with not being able to visit John in hospital

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Tips for Grieving During the Holidays

December 23, 2022

The holidays can bring up a lot of feelings, especially when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. Whether it’s the first holiday season without someone, the holidays mark a time where someone you love died, or it’s just hard to be around celebration when you’re not feeling celebratory, December can feel heavy.

These are a few tips for grieving during the holidays.

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Kim – Support at the hospital

March 5, 2022

Kim discusses how tough COVID made the hospital experience and the support she received

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Maureen – Isolated in a nursing home

September 28, 2020

Maureen talks about her father-in-law isolated and palliative during the pandemic

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Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

April 1, 2022

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

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What I know about grief

May 29, 2022

The following are some things I know to be true about grief for me, based on my lived experience. Some of them may resonate with you as well. Grief is unique to the people experiencing it in each moment, so please take whatever makes sense to you from this share and leave whatever doesn’t.

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Jean – My Story

April 1, 2022

Jean talks about isolation and grieving during a pandemic

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Lynda – “Zoom and the importance of connecting”

May 15, 2020

Lynda discusses why it’s important to stay connected and how you can do it.

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Andrea – Dealing with personal belongings

March 26, 2022

Andrea discusses dealing with her late husbands personal belongings and the need to purgees

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Christian – Autonomy for the homeless

April 23, 2023

Christian discusses those who are unhoused and how they want a space that is theirs and how we need to take that seriously especially when it comes to grief

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