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Coping with death is often a public process.
Funeral processions, rituals in worship, and burials in cemeteries are ways that deaths of individuals are honored. In the face of larger-scale tragedies, people in the United States still look to public memorialization. Items left at memorial walls, roadside crosses, and spontaneous shrines are all examples of grieving private loss in the public sphere. Amidst our current national grieving, the museum is working to document the pandemic through objects and stories, which will preserve this moment for future generations to understand. |