Users speak to Guardian with raw frankness about strange and shocking reality of loss rarely heard in national conversation
Locked behind Facebook’s privacy settings lies what Tony Fitzgerald calls an “exclusive members’ club none of us wanted to join”.
The online forum of more than 1,000 people bereaved by coronavirus is a place where the 65-year-old regularly logs on after the death of his wife from Covid-19 in April. Another member describes the forum as “a secret society”, a place where the bereaved can drop the “just about OK face” they manage in public and let the “crumbling face” of grief show.
