Betty Cabral doesn’t expect her 93-year-old father Jose Cabral to live much longer. He tested positive for the coronavirus last week.
He contracted it at the Centre D’Hébergement de Dorval, the seniors’ residence he has called home for the last four years. Betty Cabral’s parents started organizing their own funerals a decade ago.
Married for 60 years, Cabral’s mother died two years ago. She’s interred in a family crypt at the Rideau Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
This week, Cabral contacted the funeral home to finalize arrangements for her father’s eventual burial. She was shocked when she was told her father can’t be interred with her mother in their crypt because he has COVID-19. “I don’t see where, in all these