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Collected Item: “Grieving Rituals Lost to COVID-19”

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Grieving Rituals Lost to COVID-19

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news article

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Rituals are an important way to celebrate special occasions and victories as well as to deal with the stresses of life. This article discusses the grieving process people have gone through because of the loss of rituals (graduations, funerals, weddings) during the pandemic and the importance of creating new rituals.

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ritual, grief, death, graduation, social distancing, isolation, Zoom

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https://news.arizona.edu/story/grieving-rituals-lost-covid19

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Lori Harwood

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2020-04-09
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