Alison O’Connor: No-one should die alone from this virus. We must all stand together

A man stands by the coffin of his mother in the closed cemetery of Seriate, in Lombardy, on March 20. Picture: Piero Cruciatti/AFP via Getty Images

Alison O’’Connor asks, what are the death experiences that we collectively face into over the coming few months?

IT was over a decade ago and the call came in the middle of the night. I woke my aunt and we drove across the city, in the darkness, to the nursing home where a 97-year-old cousin lay dying.