Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Nicole – Pandemic’s Effect on Safe Spaces and Mental Health Access

March 25, 2023

Nicole discusses how the pandemic affected access to safe spaces and shelters for those living rough and living with addiction.

Collective/Community Grief / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / Supporting Others / Video

Jean – Traditions and grief

April 1, 2022

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Partner / Video

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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Jane – Struggling to process layers of grief

March 30, 2022

Jane talks about her experience navigating multiple losses in a short time and the impact the pandemic has had on that by adding even more multi-facitated layers of grief

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Grandparent / Death of A Loved One / Video

Christian – COVID amplified the inequities in society

April 23, 2023

Christian talks about those that have very little and how COVID amplified their difficulties

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / I Am A Professional / Video

Laura- Loss to Suicide

February 21, 2022
Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Suicide / Supporting Others

Andrea – My Story

March 26, 2022

Andrea shares her story of losing her husband during a pandemic

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Learning from Grief

December 7, 2022

Grief is weird. Odd start, I know, but that was the sentence I used a lot whenever someone asked me how I was. It was never a constant feeling; it changed day to day. And still does. It’s the full gambit of emotions from sadness to anger to guilt and, though dark, even humour found its way in.

Blog Post / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / I Am A Griever

Karyn and Aidan – Supporting each other

February 17, 2022

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they supported each other and how they coped with John being hospitalized

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Parent / Death of a Partner / Supporting Others / Video

Jean – It’s all about love

April 1, 2022

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

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Partner / Video

Maureen – Compounded grief during a pandemic

September 28, 2020

Maureen discusses how grief can be compounded during a pandemic

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Video

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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