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Grieving a non-covid death

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Grieving a non-covid death

Description (Dublin Core)

My grandfather on my dad’s side passed in April 2021. It’s coming close to a year mark at my time of writing this. I think that being in a time surrounded by so much death and loss that we have forgotten about those who have died during this time unrelated to Covid. He had suffered kidney failure in late 2013/early 2014, that part of my life is blurry in memory so I don’t recall exactly, but he had been on dialysis ever since. It’s been hard to talk about his passing, everyone assumes that death in the last two years always has to do with Covid. Death is never easy to talk about, but it is inevitable for every living creature. My grandfather was old and had been sick for a long time, he lived a long and happy life. I don’t mean that in some cheesy way, he truly did. I carry a tremendous amount of guilt surrounding his death. Due to Covid restrictions, I didn’t get to see him for a year leading up to the week that I spent with him while he was in the hospital, then hospice. I still think about him all the time and the last days that I got to spend with him. I don't think I'll ever get to have that closure I want due to this.

It’s almost as if we had expected death due to illness, accident, age, anything else, expected to stop. Yet, death of all causes never stops.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 21, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Erika Groudle

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Erika Groudle

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Healthcare
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

death
hospice
chronic illness
loss
grandfather
chronic health conditions

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

death
non-covid death
grief
loss
family
closure
hospitals
hospice

Collection (Dublin Core)

Deathways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Erika Groudle Biography Sheet
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/23/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/31/2022
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08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/23/2022

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This item was submitted on March 23, 2022 by Erika Groudle (She/Her) using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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