Ashes in the mail: Dealing with the loss of a loved one has changed in the covid era

March 08, 2021 0 Comments

Lately, nine or 10 times a month, Jason Oszczakiewicz, a Pennsylvania funeral home director known as “Oz,” walks into his local post office. Each time, he carries the same special package: the ashes of someone who has just died.

“I seem to be mailing a lot to Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, New York,” Oz said, after sending “a gentleman, a son, to his mother in Florida.”

The pandemic that has changed the rhythms and rituals of life is doing that in death, too.

To read more go to: Washington Post

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