Just a quick update, because I can’t bear to do much more. As a chaplain at a hospital in a small city in Northeast Wisconsin, I find more daily heartbreak now than even in the previous months of the pandemic, even during our peak months of November 2020-March 2021. The numbers are at least as high on our ICU and our general COVID unit. The difference is in the ages of the people who are dying, and of those who are closest to them. Last month, we saw many people in their 40’s dying. Young adults in their late teens and 20’s were their children, and seeing them try to figure out how to mourn was heart-wrenching. We saw every reaction one could imagine, from denial to self-blame to signs of deep depression.
This new month seems to be bringing us the deaths of patients in their 30’s. …
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