Verkkosas and coman categorized three types of grief rituals in therapy: Verkkomourning rituals allow families to express grief and ensure the spirit’s peaceful transition. Verkkoattention to how people come together to mourn the loss of someone they never met and have no prior knowledge offers new ways of theorizing the. Verkkomost familiar, perhaps, is the role of candles in vigils and other ceremonies: “wick and flame are symbolic of the bond between body and soul” (p. Verkkothe three themes produced from the thematic analysis were (1) covid 19 and funeral protocol; (2) inability to perform cultural and religious funeral.