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Mourning in isolation: Hospice workers prepare families for grieving in the time of coronavirus
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Mourning in isolation: Hospice workers prepare families for grieving in the time of coronavirus

  For decades, Betty Pittman was a U.S. history teacher at Lane and Charlottesville high schools. “My mother taught half of Charlottesville,” says her daughter, Cookie Ferrier. But when Pittman was dying, of pancreatic cancer, no one was allowed to visit. While the casualties from COVID-19 continue to mount, the virus is changing even the […]

benhitchcock | April 20, 2020

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Mourning in isolation: Hospice workers prepare families for grieving in the time of coronavirus

  For decades, Betty Pittman was a U.S. history teacher at Lane and Charlottesville high schools. “My mother taught half of Charlottesville,” says her daughter, Cookie Ferrier. But when Pittman was dying, of pancreatic cancer, no one was allowed to visit. While the casualties from COVID-19 continue to mount, the virus is changing even the […]

benhitchcock | April 20, 2020

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