COVID-19: Funeral celebrants and the growing ‘death positive’ movement
burial plots.That may seem like an odd, or even slightly morbid way to celebrate a birthday, but Morton doesn’t see it that way.“There is that sense of taboo, that you mustn’t talk about death, that if you go to a graveyard it’ll be terribly spooky, it will be horrible,” Morton told Dawna Friesen in an interview for Global’s The New Reality.“And these are not things we want to talk about, but actually I think it’s really healthy to talk about and anticipate these things.”With all the deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on gatherings for funerals and remembrance services, he worries that loss and grief are going to catch up to us later.“In the beginning of the pandemic, where there were so many restrictions on funerals,.
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