Dealing with grief online

IN THE era of social distancing, the inability to gather and mourn the loss of a loved one has seen many South Africans turn to online grief counselling to help them deal with the loss.

With a drastic increase in deaths over the last few months due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, grief counsellors in the country have been inundated with calls from South Africans needing desperate help to overcome the loss of a loved one.

One group, GriefShare, has been hard at work.

The internationally renowned grief support and sharing group, which started in the US,