CHICAGO — When Kim Miller sat down in her Illinois house to compose her husband’s obituary, she could not hold back. “This disease is real, it is serious and it is deadly,” she wrote in his obituary. “In the beginning, families wanted to keep Covid more private,” said Charles S. Childs Jr., an owner of A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home in Chicago, where he has seen a surge of virus deaths in the last month. “In lieu of flowers or donations, we just ask to take the Covid-19 virus seriously and please spend time with your loved ones,” her family wrote. Deaths Approach 300,000, Obituaries Force Reckoning with Covid appeared first on New York Times.
