
OpinionMay 22, 2020
Grief in the Time of COVID-19
We can’t visit the dying in hospitals, and we can’t gather for funerals—but technology can lessen the pain
Claire Bidwell Smith, L.C.P.C., is a grief therapist and author of The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin, 2012) and After This: When Life Is Over Where Do We Go? (Penguin, 2015).

Grief in the Time of COVID-19
We can’t visit the dying in hospitals, and we can’t gather for funerals—but technology can lessen the pain