04/29/2020
Excerpts from an article written on the new reality of live streaming funeral watch parties.
LIFE GOES ON EVEN WHEN IT DOESN’T: STREAMING A FUNERAL “WATCH PARTY” IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS
Posted by Lee Matz | Apr 5, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
We have heard about funerals that have been live streamed, for distant relatives who are too old to travel. But never do we expect to be live streaming our own family funeral because travel is too unsafe for anyone to leave their home, and no more than a handful of people can gather together in public.
Since I watched church services online for years and was force to do everything remotely because I was separated by miles of ocean, I am familiar with the video-based habits the rest of the community are presently required to adopt. But the difference now is that community.
The full scale social distancing order that has closed schools and many businesses, to keep the Milwaukee public “Safer at Home” as a way to contain the spread of COVID-19, has upended many normal habits of life. The condition has become more evident as developing situations require that the old ways be applied to our new reality. That example was made clear on March 31, when I attended my first watch party of a live streaming funeral service.
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