How this 'last responder' learned to livestream funerals, and why
The four-minute video, recorded on a smartphone, captures the sounds of a spring day — a gusty wind, birds chirping. Less audible are the words of a pastor, wearing blue hospital gloves, reading from what appears to be a Bible. His audience was a small family standing together at one end of a wooden casket topped with a spectacular pink and white floral arrangement. Barely in view, other people stand yards away in formal attire. Also in the audience: roughly 215 viewers on Facebook since the video’s upload. Pre-pandemic, at least some of those people might have been at the gravesite...