How do we mourn the victims of Covid

LONDON — Gradually, the Covid-19 sanctuary was born on top of a hill in the town of Bedworth, in central England. The process was meant to be a metaphor for a human life. Like bones fused together over time, it grew as the memorial's creators spent months assembling intricate pieces of wood into a skeletal structure that ultimately stood on its own, 65 feet tall. .
Then they burned it all down.
There have always been monuments to commemorate the loss of life human beings during calamitous events, such as the thousands of memorials dedicated to the world wars, the Sept . 11 bombings, the Holocaust.
Image "Sanctuary", near Coventry, England, in May, before its creators set it on fire. constructed of nearly 1,000 carvings of arches, spiers, and pine and birch cornices. , presented a unique challenge for grieving families. This is not a singular event, in one place. As the death toll of more than six million people worldwide continues to rise, communities and families are trying to keep pace, building memorials as the tragedy still unfolds, its end is not still written.
New monuments are being installed. Old projects are multiplying. Photographs and biographies of Covid-19 victims in Malaysia and South Africa are updated online. Landscapes of villages and towns are transformed by memory, from a waist-high structure in Rajannapet, India, to spinning windmills set along a walkway in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Names are painted on a wall along the River Thames in London and on rocks arranged in hearts on a farm in New Jersey. Thousands of waving flags were planted at the Rhode Island State House. Ribbons are tied to a church fence in South Africa.
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LONDON — Gradually, the Covid-19 sanctuary was born on top of a hill in the town of Bedworth, in central England. The process was meant to be a metaphor for a human life. Like bones fused together over time, it grew as the memorial's creators spent months assembling intricate pieces of wood into a skeletal structure that ultimately stood on its own, 65 feet tall. .

Then they burned it all down.

There have always been monuments to commemorate the loss of life human beings during calamitous events, such as the thousands of memorials dedicated to the world wars, the Sept . 11 bombings, the Holocaust.

Image "Sanctuary", near Coventry, England, in May, before its creators set it on fire. constructed of nearly 1,000 carvings of arches, spiers, and pine and birch cornices. , presented a unique challenge for grieving families. This is not a singular event, in one place. As the death toll of more than six million people worldwide continues to rise, communities and families are trying to keep pace, building memorials as the tragedy still unfolds, its end is not still written.

New monuments are being installed. Old projects are multiplying. Photographs and biographies of Covid-19 victims in Malaysia and South Africa are updated online. Landscapes of villages and towns are transformed by memory, from a waist-high structure in Rajannapet, India, to spinning windmills set along a walkway in São Paulo, Brazil.

Names are painted on a wall along the River Thames in London and on rocks arranged in hearts on a farm in New Jersey. Thousands of waving flags were planted at the Rhode Island State House. Ribbons are tied to a church fence in South Africa.

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