Death Cafes help ease grief, loss in the time of coronavirus
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This Nov. 16, 2019 photo shows an altar made by mortician and death cafe host Angela Craig-Fournes in honor of Death Cafe founder Jon Underwood, who died in 2017. (Angela Craig-Fournes via AP)In this June 22, 2020 photo, Marissa Oliver, a COVID-19 survivor who found comfort discussing her experience with the virus and fear of death at Death Cafe meetups, walks through a park in her neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Others attending virtual Death Cafes, part of a broader "death-positive" movement to encourage more open discussion about grief, trauma and loss, are coping with deaths from COVID-19, cancer and other illnesses. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)This Nov. 16, 2019 photo shows an altar made by mortician and death cafe host Angela Craig-Fournes in honor of Death Cafe founder Jon Underwood, who died in 2017. (Angela Craig-Fournes via AP)In this June 22, 2020 photo, Marissa Oliver, a COVID-19 survivor who found comfort discussing her experience with the virus and fear of death at Death Cafe meetups, walks through a park in her neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Others attending virtual Death Cafes, part of a broader "death-positive" movement to encourage more open discussion about grief, trauma and loss, are coping with deaths from COVID-19, cancer and other illnesses. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
This Nov. 16, 2019 photo shows an altar made by mortician and death cafe host Angela Craig-Fournes in honor of Death Cafe founder Jon Underwood, who died in 2017. (Angela Craig-Fournes via AP)