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Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone

  • Written by Taryn Lindhorst, Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
imageThe first wind phone was built in 2010 in Otsuchi, Japan.Matthew Komatsu/Wikimedia Commons

My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went into COVID-19 lockdown. Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no...

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