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[quote=Anonymous]We buried my mother recently; she died of covid. It was difficult because we are a big family. My mom had five siblings, four children, 10 grandchildren. But she died as a health care worker and would have nagged us to keep the funeral safe for everyone. So two of my siblings just went solo to the funeral , leaving behind spouses and grandchildren, because they had high-risk family members or newborns. We capped the funeral at 10 people  (outside of funeral staff) and a lot of family who really wanted to go just didn't/couldn't. This was also an out-of-town funeral. Everyone wore masks sand the funeral home made sure the chairs were six feet apart.  We vowed we would try to do a more social gathering later this summer.

Even though my mother was religious and would have liked a full-fledged Catholic Mass , we just did a graveside service (a Mass with everything except communion) next to the grave. It was a beautiful outdoor service.  We brought a speaker with music and set up a table with an ipad that cycled through pictures. And then one person (my spouse) was appointed the "photographer" and took lots of pictures of the service and funeral of the extended family. And then we hosted a big Zoom call a few hours after the service to serve as an after-gathering.

It was not ideal. But it was safe. This was 2.5 weeks ago, and miraculously, nobody got (more) sick afterwards, other than one member of the family who had lived with my mother, and had tested positive a month before the funeral, went to the funeral, and then tested positive again a week after the funeral.  It's been 16 days and so far nobody who attended the funeral has shown symptoms.[/quote]

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