Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jane – Loneliness while processing grief

Jane talks about grieving without her extended family because of the pandemic and how that’s impacted things like scattering ashes and having celebrations of life.

Michele – My Story

MIchele talks about her multiple losses starting from when she was very young

Maureen – End stages during a pandemic

Maureen talks about the end stages of her father-in-law during the pandemic.

Karyn and Aidan – The what if game and guilt

Karyn and Aidan explain how they have dealt with guilt

Joyce -The pandemics impact on drug poisonings

Joyce talks about drug poisonings during the pandemic

Michele – Normalizing conversations around death dying grief and loss

Michele discusses grief literacy, the importance of talking and that dying is a part of life

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Lynda – “Helping a griever during the pandemic”

Lynda shares tips on helping someone in grief

Nicole – Power of Speaking About Lost Ones

Nicole discusses the importance of sharing memories of those lost to drug poisoning and speaking their names.

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

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

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

Zoreena talks about her father’s decline in a nursing home during COVID