Contextualizing mourning in a disrupted funeral rituality

International audienceThe COVID-19 pandemic imposed public health measures that had an impact on specific areas of social life. The end-of-life period, the moment of death and the funeral were particularly affected by the breadth of this crisis, which became both a crisis of mortality (an excess of mortality in the context of an epidemic) and a “funerary” crisis (an upheaval of the normal conditions surrounding final farewells and burials for all types of deaths)