Too many Americans still can’t talk about death, even after 15 months of pandemic

The Boston Globe interviewed Anita Hannig on the connection between Covid-19 and our collective mortality. “One of the ironies of this death-saturated pandemic, Hannig says, is that the average American has in some ways become further removed from death. Restricted from hospitals and nursing homes, family members have been robbed of those intimate moments we used to take for granted — holding the hand of a dying relative or bearing witness at the cemetery as a loved one is lowered into the earth.”

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