Death, Grief and Loss in the Context of COVID-19

Introduction: Capturing the beginning of a long journey of loss, trauma and grief . PART 1: Reconsidering Death and Grief in Covid-19. 1. Familiarity with death. 2. Grief in the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Apocalypse now: COVID-19 and the crisis of meaning. 4. Physically distant but socially connected: Streaming funerals, memorials and ritual design during COVID-19. 5. Social death in 2020: Covid-19, which lives matter and which deaths count? PART 2: Institutional Care and Covid-19. 6. End-of-life decision-making in the context of a pandemic. 7. NHS values, ritual, religion, and COVID-19 death. 8. Non-COVID-19 related dying and death during the pandemic. 9. Covid-19 and care home deaths and harms: A case study from the UK. 10. Impact of Covid-19 on mental health and associated losses. 11. Assisted dying and Covid-19. PART 3: Impact of COVID-19 in Context. 12. Losing touch? Older people and COVID-19. 13. Between cultural necrophilia and African American activism: life and loss in the age of COVID. 14. The biopolitics and stigma of the HIV and Covid-19 Pandemics. 15. Suicide in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 16. Death and dying during the COVD-19 pandemic: The Indian context.