Even as the early COVID-19 pandemic news cycle included a daily count of deaths as a result of the virus, the veil shrouding the individuals whose chosen path is taking care of not just the deceased, but the loved ones they leave behind, remained a cloak of invisibility. A year after the pandemic irrevocably changed the way Americans grieve, it’s time to pull back the mask of those men and women.
“I call us the forgotten responders. No one wants to look in the dark corners of what happens (after a death),” George…
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