Omar Rodriguez, left, with the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home, works with William Samuels who was delivering caskets to the Queens business, Friday, March 27, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. In just the past week, the funeral home has had services for almost a dozen people who have died, and is expecting more. For those mourning loved ones, funerals in the age of self-quarantine and social distancing are a far cry from the rituals of collective mourning …
March 27, 2020
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March 27, 2020 2:55 p.m.
Closed caskets, empty chairs at funeral home in virus center
NEW YORK (AP) — The caskets are often closed these days, the chairs for mourners largely empty at the Gerard J. Neufeld Inc. funeral home.