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COVID, Funerals and Closure
Throughout the whole pandemic, so many people have spoken about the inability to find closure because they were not able to have a funeral. I always agreed with the idea that "closure" is not really a thing; grief is lifelong and no ritual will bring an end to grief. But the part that struck me was the idea of funerals as an initiation, or even an invitation, to grieve.