Text messages capture heartbreaking goodbyes of COVID-19 victims
Daughter: “Just wish I could see you in person.” Mother: “I wish that more than anything in the world right now.”
Sisters Dana Cobbs (on left) and Darcey Cobbs-Lomax lost their father and paternal grandmother to COVID-19 last spring, the deaths occurring only a week apart.
ByKatie Sanders
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Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, almost 500,000 American families know firsthand the grief of losing a loved one, many in conditions that restrict bedside goodbyes. These circumstances—piled on top of the many unknowns of COVID-19—layer enormous pain, guilt, and grief on top of the already-traumatic process of saying goodbye to someone we love.