Read original article CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon leaders and medical professionals have been vocal about the need for an increased supply of personal protective equipment for frontline workers like nurses, doctors, paramedics. Those who respond after a patient has died, though, have largely gone unrecognized. “We’re on the front lines. Our industry is…
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All Veterans & All States Cremation: Funerals, grieving become private affairs in the era of coronavirus
Read original article By DAVID MIGOYA | [email protected] | The Denver Post For the better part of nearly two decades, Ken Reck has played the same 24 notes about 200 times a year – sometimes more frequently – without accompaniment and at times without audience. Each time was as important as the previous, each one to be as solemn…
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Cremation Society of Minnesota: Cremate and wait: How COVID-19 is changing the way funeral homes do the business of life and death
Read original article By Jim Walsh | 03/27/2020 Over the past week, the obituary pages of area newspapers have become a haunting litany of “memorial service to be held at a later date,” “no services,” and “services canceled due to COVID-19.” To be sure, death and impending pandemic doom may be our new daily communion, but for funeral…
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Hiers-Baxley: Businesses working hard to meet customer needs
Read original article By Jeff Shain and Summer Jarro, Daily Sun Staff Writers | Mar 25, 2020 Curbside service isn’t just for dinner anymore. From home goods to hair product to paint to art décor, retailers in The Villages have increasingly turned to the act of loading goods into customers’ cars — or golf carts…
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