Mourning with the world: The loneliness of grief in a pandemic Zohreh, Bayatrizi, Hajar Ghorbani and Reza Taslimitehrani […] In the case of COVID-19 deaths, we see these dynamics at play again on local, national and transnational scales. The emerging evidence in Iran indicates that contagion both as a biological fact but also as a social fear and stigma might have led to the increasing loneliness and even stigmatization of the dying and the grieving relatives. In personal interviews, survivors identified separation from the dying and dead relatives as the worst aspect of grief during contagion. A woman who had Read more…