May you have a Nechama and May her neshama have an aliyah! It’s interesting because all the levayas I’ve attended in my family, it was always like that. We did everything. Prob because my grandparents weren’t frum and they weren’t in in town places etc.
Amen.
My father won’t be saying Kaddish again until much after the shloshim (Erev Pesach). There is no proper nichum aveilim- the aveilim will not be seeing each other or accepting live visitors. Fortunately she merited a tahara, though many unfortunately are not. Many of her own children were not able to attend the levaya. She was left without a shomer the whole Shabbos. Nobody was at her side when she was niftar.
Point is, this machla affects every part of the Petira, even setting aside the actual illness and death. The toll it is taking is devastating and we must do all we can to try and mitigate this with whatever is in our hands to do.
As I write this, I hear sirens whizzing by once more.. ad mosai?