O perspectivă asupra ceremonialului funerar românesc în perioada pandemiei de COVID-19
A Perspective on the Romanian Death Rituals during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Summary/Abstract: Death is the third most important moment in the lifecycle, and the funeral ritual creates a specific narrative framework. Gestures, practices and ritual acts, actors, props, all come to create an integre that is meant to facilitate the separation of the deceased from family and community, alongside their transition to a new status, and the integration of the deceased into the great family of the dead. In the post-December period, the rituals and ceremonies specific to the funeral rite underwent changes, especially in urban areas. However, due to the restrictive measures imposed on a national level, an atypical situation is represented by the funerals taking place during the pandemic, in the case of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. While the funeral rite was considered, until recently, the most conservative of the rites of passage, in this pandemic and epidemiological context, as a result of legal regulations, it suffered significant mutations.

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