"Let us remember those who died alone during the Covid crisis"

All Saints' Day is coming.

It is the time of visits to the cemetery, bouquets of chrysanthemums on the graves.

The time of remembrance.

The memory of the dead, who remain alive.

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This year, this ritual takes on a particular force.

Many of "our dead" have experienced a nightmare of inhumanity before dying.

Forbidden to visit, accompany, our dying knew, before they fell asleep, that they would not see their loved ones, their spouse, their children again.

This last consolation was denied to them.

They died alone.

One can easily imagine the sorrow of families held back, sometimes in tears, at the gates of nursing homes and hospital services.

Relatives who have not been able to perform the last gestures, say the last words that allow us to separate from a loved one.

Farewell to the face, meditation around the coffin, funeral, none of these rites that humans have performed since the dawn of time has been possible, except with rare exceptions.

"Work of death"

Today, the mourning of

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