The Muslim bereaved cruelly deprived of closure by coronavirus
Infection risk means families are suffering trauma and guilt by not being able to carry out the Islamic funeral ritual of washing the body
Jusna Begum wakes up to her phone ringing at 1am. When she answers, it’s an inconsolable woman who has just lost her father to coronavirus.
This has become the new normal for Begum, despite her being neither a grief counsellor nor a medic or chaplain. Rather, she is the person who would usually have washed the bodies of the deceased – a fundamental Muslim ritual in death.
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