April 2020

McDermott & Crockett: Zoom being used for live funeral, memorial services

Read original article While the controversial video meet app Zoom is busy serving Zoom is busy serving the living - helping millions participate in video conferencing calls worldwide - the platform has also become a live funeral and memorial services for many to connect with families and friends during the mourning hours. Several social media…
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BRBS Funeral Homes: Funeral Homes, families, adjust to coronavirus restrictions

Read original article GLOVERSVILLE — While residents across the state are adjusting to restrictions on everyday life amid the coronavirus outbreak, some face the additional burden of losing a loved one during a time when typical services bringing family and friends closer together to pay their last respects cannot be held. “We are not able…
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Musgrove Family Mortuary: Burials without funerals, grief without hugs

Read original article By Peter Kramer, NorthJersey.com | Apr 9, 2020 Coronavirus is changing how Americans say goodbye Maggie Farley wants to remember the way her father lived — the Denver probate lawyer’s sense of humor, integrity and decades fighting for affordable housing — not how he died of COVID-19 with no family permitted at his…
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