Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Nicole – Pandemic Leads to Increase in Drug Poisoning

Nicole discusses the increase in drug poisonings during the pandemic due to a number of factors.

Kim – Some cry some don’t

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

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Laura- Loss to Covid & Disconnection

Kim – You can get through this

Kim talks about the difference between her Dad and her Mum’s death

Maureen – Isolated in a nursing home

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

Karyn and Aidan – Our story

Karyn and Aidan – Karyn tells the story leading up to John’s death during the pandemic

Christian – My process in grieving

Christian explains his grieving process and how it’s important to let people in, the power of community, and having a team that makes him feel loved and cared for

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Jean – It’s all about love

Jean talks about losing her husband to a heart attack on valentines day

When Death Feels like a Thief

In the heart of my grief, at my frailest, all I could see was what was no more. I grieved all that was stolen from me by death; love, security and even my very self. Had I known the value of having every pocket of who I was, picked bare by grief, I would not have fought so hard to hold onto it all.

Nicole – Stigma Surrounding Drug Use

Nicole discusses how the stigma around drug use has an impact on how people feel able to grieve when those in their community are lost.