Abstract
In this article, I explore the ways in which people have dealt with death since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the Netherlands. Using a dossier with newspaper articles, tweets, Facebook posts, books, online stories, and interviews, I trace cultural patterns or so-called death mentalities. The theoretical framework is based on both P. Ariès’s and M.H. Jacobsen’s characteristics of different ways of dealing with death, which involve both ideas and practices. A tentative conclusion is that, on the one hand, there is denial of death; on the other hand, changes in ritual indicate a protest against death caused by the coronavirus.
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