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Am also thinking of all those lost lives who didn't have the means for a proper funeral and death notice.
Not all these notices are COVID-19 related but a majority are. So sad.
I am a loyal @BostonGlobe reader who has gotten the paper delivered every day since the 80s. I don't ever recall seeing so many pages in the death notices section. Maybe since 9/11, which also impacted Massachusetts. But seeing this today was a real punch to the gut.
The stories in these notices are so sad. Real lives. Real people. Am thinking about my elderly in-laws on this Easter Sunday, who have been physically distancing but are terrified. I dropped a few masks for them this week & they are ok but I get sad that I don't get to see them.
The notices in today's Sunday @BostonGlobe represent 127 cities and towns across all of #Massachusetts, mostly Eastern Mass. It also includes notices from 14 other states (33 total) and 2 notices from outside of US (Greece and Venezuela) of lost lives with connections to Mass.
And the Globe is running daily death notices. For example, last Wednesday's paper had 5 pages.
Tuesday has 4 pages.
Saturday was 1 page.
Tuesday has 4 pages.
Saturday was 1 page.
On the in-law front, we just did a family Easter video call and my father-in-law, who's in his 80s, once he figured out how to do the video call (that's a sitcom in itself), was happy to see us all and he even sang some songs for us!!!
Also, thank you to all for sharing the link to the Italian one from a few weeks ago, which I had also seen/shared and that crushed me back then. Since I live in the Boston area, I wanted to share what my local newspaper, which is doing an outstanding job, published today.
