Author(s): Driss Hemiri, Ms. Soraya Sbihi

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the coronavirus appears on November 17, 2019 in the city of Wuhan, central China, and then spreads around the world. Several countries quickly took drastic containment and disinfection measures for their citizens. However, the virus, comparable to that of the Spanish flu, is spreading all over the world paralyzing entire countries, causing psychosis and plunging the world into a crisis not seen since World War II. to the pain of losing a loved one is added, in this period of epidemic and confinement, the distress of not being able to organize a funeral ceremony and of being deprived of any possibility of saying goodbye to the deceased, of being together between relatives to comfort each other.

Keywords: pandemic, accident, collective grief, collective death, individual grief.

Article Info: Received: 26 Oct 2020; Received in revised form: 16 Jan 2021; Accepted: 04 Feb 2021; Available online: 14 Feb 2021

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.61.31