It's used for work, school, Friday-night drinks and yoga. Now Zoom is being used for funerals From 1843mag
Less than three weeks after Kevin Quigley heard his brother Paul was ill, he found himself crowdsourcing advice on how to livestream a funeral.
It was unbearable for the family to think about Paul dying alone. Then it became clear that most of them wouldn’t be able to go to his funeral either: the undertakers wouldn’t allow more than one household to attend because of the pandemic. In the end, Paul’s mother didn’t want any of her six surviving children to travel to London for it in case they got ill too.
With more than 7,000 people already dead from coronavirus in Britain, plans are underway for makeshift mortuaries and morgues in council depots, industrial estates and aircraft hangars. But accommodating the emotional needs of death during a pandemic is more complicated and fraught. When the need to cremate bodies during the Ebola crisis in west Africa made traditional burial rites impossible, it sometimes resulted in physical clashes between grieving families and government undertakers.
After Paul died, Kevin saw a Facebook tribute to him from one of his London friends, Mark Healey. It turned out Paul had done voluntary work for Healey's charity, which raises awareness of hate crimes against minority communities, and they had both been members of their localKevin scrolled through the post and the responses beneath it, feeling as though he was discovering a new side to his dead brother. “We’d had no idea he was so active in charity,” he said.
He prepared assiduously to avoid technical glitches on the day, convening an hour-long online practice meeting for anyone planning to “come” to the funeral. Rather than hosting the Zoom connection from his home in Shrewsbury, he set it up in his nearby office, where the Wi-Fi connection was better.
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