Grieving for the dead and caring for those left behind during the pandemic

• 5 years ago
• Radio
• Duration 29:13

COVID-19 is not only changing how we live, it has also fundamentally changed how we die — and how we act in the face of death. We're now isolated in mourning, unable to gather for rituals to mark the passing of our loved ones. Michael Enright speaks to Thomas Lynch, who has long ruminated over dying, bereavement and the importance of funeral rites to honour the dead and the living — both as a small-town funeral director and as an award-winning poet and essayist, whose latest book is The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be.