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A Burial Post Pandemic

Title (Dublin Core)

A Burial Post Pandemic

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Description (Dublin Core)

I did not travel during the entirety of the strict lockdown period of the COVID-19 Pandemic. My wife and I worked in retail and were deemed essential so we worked through it from April 2020 until the restrictions were broadly lifted. In March 2021 my mother died of an unrelated illness, the first trip I took after the travel restrictions were lifted was to bury her in Carlsbad, New Mexico. We did not hold a funeral service and we did not hold a memorial, she was cremated and buried quietly. I remember this very vividly because even at that time it felt wrong to travel and to be interacting with people in a way that wasn't required by work. We wore masks the entire time. Due to our proximity to El Paso, TX I remember vividly when they were storing bodies in buses in the streets there and this made us fearful and cautious. Even had we not been still in the throes of the pandemic, I don't think I would have done anything differently but I do believe that the added stress of travel would not have been present thus making the trip more manageable. Due to our need to isolate, and resist getting sick, what I remember most of all is the loneliness of the matter, and the quiet car rides, and wondering 'How might things have been different?'

Date (Dublin Core)

March 18, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Jared Van Natta

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Biography
English Travel

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

retail
loss
burial
Carlsbad
fear
mask
reflection
work

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

Carlsbad
New Mexico
Arizona State University
HST643
Spring B Session 2024
2024

Collection (Dublin Core)

Deathways
Essential Workers

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/14/2024

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/19/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/18/2021

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on March 14, 2024 by Jared Van Natta 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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