Pandemic Restrictions Have Left Families Reeling. But Take Comfort: We Don’t Die Alone.
4 min readMar 22, 2021
My 91 year-old mother died this month in an assisted living/memory care facility in Maine. I wasn’t allowed to be with her.
As a resident of NYC for the past year, I would have had to quarantine for two weeks making a visit impossible, and I didn’t want to jeopardize the other residents and the staff who so lovingly…
