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Among everything happening in the world, it is safe to say that things are hectic in the U.S. Black lives are being lost at an alarmingly high rate due to the mutating Coronavirus, but also to another plague that has been infecting Americans for hundreds of years: Racism.

The world has shut down and is fighting against a common enemy and nothing will ever be the same. I have mixed feelings about the entire situation the world is in, it’s surreal. COVID19, a virus that attacks the respiratory system, brings on acute pneumonia causing many deaths and is currently a GLOBAL pandemic, has pointed out and put on display many failures in society and has actually made things clearer than ever. 

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So yeah depending on what the role is based on the institutions the chaplains, what they are going to need to know and how they are going to proceed with the family is going to be different depending on what they are going to understand. I don’t know many people that get involved with the approach part, I think that will be very different than if you’re just a chaplain alongside the family, you know, comforting them as they make the decision.