01-04-2020 17:00 via theverge.com

Grief support systems have been wrecked by COVID-19

Undertakers rehearse an online funeral in Vienna, Austria. | Photo by Thomas Kronsteiner / Getty Images Funerals are for the living. They’re an occasion for a community to recognize a loss and gather support for those who remain. But the novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted these much-needed mourning rituals. To slow the spread of COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discourages events of more than 10 people — a guideline that extends from the Irish wake t
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