Nobody wants to be close to death. But I’ve learned this last month that nobody wants to be socially-distanced from it either.
When my grandmother died, she went the way she would have wanted to go. She died in her sleep, without family fussing over her.
I am grateful that she was able to go pain-free and peacefully. But mourning loss in a COVID World meant that all of the important Jewish traditions, meant to allow family and friends to pay respects and come to their own peace with the loss of life, were unable to be observed.
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