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[quote=Anonymous]I just lost a family member who had been residing in a nursing home and we had to have the funeral very quickly. The funeral home director asked us to do an immediate burial, but we pleaded for more time. Thankfully they agreed, but the protocols and restrictions changed drastically in the interim...which was only about 4 days. We were not able to have many guests, the few that we had were required to rotate in for the viewing, there were only about 5 chairs in the parlor which were placed at least 8 ft apart and they only wanted 2-3 people at the casket at a time. The funeral director said that we were lucky to be able to have any type of service because in the coming days, immediate burials would be the only option available. This was in DC.

My family member was a veteran, but we learned from the VA (a day before the funeral) that military honors had been suspended indefinitely, so we lost out on having that too. This is so hard, but I fear it'll get worse before it gets better. [/quote]

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