The changing face of grief

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How people are dealing with grief and loss during the pandemic. And Melinda Hunt, the director of Hart Island in New York explains the challenges of burying the city’s dead.

The coronavirus is rewriting how we grieve. Unable to gather in person, people are finding new ways to mourn.

An island in New York that has historically housed the city’s dead is being stretched by the coronavirus.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.
0:07.0	Hi, Stephanie McCurman from the Washington Post.
0:13.4	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.2	It's Monday, May 4.
0:23.5	Today how grief and mourning are changing in the time of COVID-19, and finding dignity
0:29.9	in a public burial ground.
0:36.2	My grandparents were born in Czechoslovakia.
0:39.8	They met after the war, after World War II, when my grandfather came back as a soldier
0:46.2	and realized his parents had died in Auschwitz and his country was very changed.
0:52.0	And he saw my grandmother in a photograph that her sister showed him, and he said that's
0:58.8	the most beautiful woman in the world.
1:00.4	I'm going to marry her.
1:07.9	And a few days later he saw a woman sitting in a window, which was the girl from the photograph,
1:14.3	and he convinced her to attend a bonfire with him that evening.
1:19.0	And she agreed, and that's where he proposed.
1:23.0	And she said yes, and they got married and ended up living in Canada and having a
1:28.6	little 1950s lifestyle.
1:38.3	My name is Ella Smith.
1:39.9	I am an actor living in Brooklyn, New York, currently on quarantine.
1:48.0	Ella is in the middle of a process that a lot of people around the country are also
1:52.9	going through right now.
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