Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Corrie – Pandemic of grief

Corrie discusses how much grief there is

Zoreena – Ask for help

Zoreena explains how important it is to ask for help

Kara – Uncertainty

Kara discusses how Covid-19 has created uncertainty and impacted grieving.The pandemic changed the way Kara continued to grieve the loss of her partner.

Karyn and Aidan – Hospital and the COVID restrictions

Karyn and Aidan talk about the challenges of the restrictions and the impact of COVID patients on John’s care

Collective Grief

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.

Maureen – “Permission to mourn”

Maureen explains about grief being valid and how important it is to look after yourself.

Christian – Language around those pushed to the margins

Christian talks about how people who are pushed to the margins are not discussed as part of our community and how we need to include them. As a community how do we care for our neighbours and how do we mourn the loss of our neighbours

Jean – Be good to yourself

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

Laura- Processing Grief

Nicole – Pandemic’s Effect on Grieving as a Community

Nicole discusses the ways the pandemic has affected the way people grieve as a community.

Kate – COVID and grieving with my parents

Kate shares about how COVID was stress on top of dealing with the loss of her brother

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her