Maureen Pollard interviews Mitchell Consky, Author of Home Safe: A Memoir of End-of-Life Care during Covid-19, about his experience of losing his father to cancer during the pandemic and how he and his family coped with their grief. "I think most of the time when someone we love is dying, there's still all of the pressures of the outside world, we still have to surrender to the hustle and bustle. But what made this experience so beautiful and surreal and bittersweet was the fact that we really had nowhere else that we needed to be. I'm a journalist, and so I leaned into my journalistic intuitions and I interviewed my dad throughout his decline ... My dad never really told many stories about his past, he lost both of his parents when he was really young and he never really was able to articulate that pain and his grief until he was dying himself. So through exploring his own grief he was also able to ultimately accept his own mortality and it was this incredible experience and all these beautiful bittersweet moments really dove-tailed and punctuated our whole pandemic experience."
You can find Mitchell's book here: www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60442737
