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       Re: some things you just don't ask ("How did she die?"
       )
       By: RubyCat Date: June 7, 2020, 7:02 pm
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       [quote author=Aleko link=topic=1706.msg52800#msg52800
       date=1591514369]
       [quote]My aunt, who lives in Peoria said that a woman being
       interviewed on the radio, or maybe writing in her newspaper,
       told of how hard it was for her to field phone calls from people
       after her husband died of COVID-19.  That so many of the people
       who called her would ask, "How did he catch it? Who gave it to
       him?"
       And that it was NOT comforting. First, nobody really knows.
       Second, it's just nosiness.[/quote]
       I'm not sure that it's just nosiness. People are in fear of the
       pandemic, and when someone dies of something you fear, it's
       instinctive to feel 'I must find out how they got it so I can
       avoid that myself, or reassure myself that at least I'm not at
       risk from the same person/situation/behaviour'. Of course it's
       an instinct that we should all suppress, because asking is, as
       you say, hurtful, and it's pretty futile anyway.
       [/quote]
       I was reading an obituary in a small, local paper and they
       specified that the deceased dies of COPD and [i]not[/I]
       COVID-19. In light of how afraid so many people are of COVID,
       it's understandable and reassuring in an odd way that he died of
       something else.
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       Re: some things you just don't ask ("How did she die?"
       )
       By: TootsNYC Date: June 8, 2020, 9:57 am
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       [quote author=RubyCat link=topic=1706.msg52817#msg52817
       date=1591574563]
       I was reading an obituary in a small, local paper and they
       specified that the deceased dies of COPD and [i]not[/I]
       COVID-19. In light of how afraid so many people are of COVID,
       it's understandable and reassuring in an odd way that he died of
       something else.
       [/quote]
       This is a time in which I might want to include the cause of
       death if it was non-COVID-19, just to keep people from asking me
       if it was.
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