Pandemic Funerals

Funerals at funeral homes in Skaneateles, NY have changed dramatically with the COVID-19 pandemic. With all the restrictions placed on how many people can gather indoors – and outdoors – and the social distancing measures that are designed to keep everyone safer, but that also prohibit close contact among people, it’s impossible for you to have the traditional funeral rituals to provide comfort and support during your loss.

You may find that you are not only mourning the loss of your loved one, but you are also mourning the loss of the very things that people have always depended on with wakes, visitations, and funeral services to help them feel loved and consolation after the death of a loved one.

While funeral services are still being held during the coronavirus pandemic, they may leave you and your family feeling as though the goodbye for your loved one is insufficient or incomplete. That can make it more difficult for you and your family to experience a true sense of closure.

Many things about the COVID-19 pandemic may impact how you and your family process the death of your loved one. If your loved one died of COVID-19, then you likely didn’t even get to spend time with them in person as they were dying or when they died.

If your loved one died in a care facility, you may have gotten to see them only through a window or through a video chat before they died. This can leave you and your family with even more grief because you weren’t able to be with your loved one in their final days and hours.

You may find, even though you want to hold a public funeral service for your loved one, that it seems as though the funeral is private, because so few people are able to attend in person, and those who attend must maintain a distance that is not conducive for convey comfort and support.

However, your funeral home is constantly adapting new methods and techniques to try to keep the traditions of funerals in the funerals that are being held during this pandemic. Adaptation has been one of the skills that all of us have had to master in our lives as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

For example, you may have the option to livestream your loved one’s funeral service through a video streaming or video meeting application. The video streaming application will let people attend your loved one’s funeral virtually, but they will not be able to interact with the funeral service itself.

Having your loved one’s funeral with a video meeting application will give you the option of letting people who attend virtually participate in the funeral. This is an especially good choice if you have various people doing readings or giving eulogies during your loved one’s funeral.

There are also a number of ways that you can have a safe visitation that lets mourners pay their respects to your loved one and offer their condolences to you and your family.

One of the most popular options is having a drive through visitation. You and your family will stand at the front of the funeral home, and mourners can, one at a time, drive up, open the windows of their car, and pay tribute to your loved one and give their sympathy to you and your family for you loss.

For more information about arranging funerals at funeral homes in Skaneateles, NY, our compassionate and experienced team at Bagozzi Twins Funeral Home, Inc. is here to help you.