Death without dignity? Rural funeral practices in the time of COVID-19
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Bank, N.V.Sharpley, A.Madini
KEYWORDS: BEREAVEMENT, COVID-19, COVID-19 LOCKDOWN, FUNERALS
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11672
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16029
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16029
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Bank, N.V.Sharpley, A.Madini
KEYWORDS: BEREAVEMENT, COVID-19, COVID-19 LOCKDOWN, FUNERALS
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11672
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16029
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16029
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Abstract
In rural South Africa, funerals are family and community affairs. They are not usually run by the state, funeral directors, local government officials or hospital staff. They are also not occasions on which one expects to find police officers on duty. Families and religious leaders are normally given relative freedom to bury the dead in a dignified way and according to tradition and religious beliefs. The COVID-19 restrictions do not allow this.-
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