Saying goodbye by phone: Death in lockdown

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Saying goodbye by phone: Death in lockdown

Fiona Cassie

Fiona Cassie

Taranaki from Hawera 1 Sept 2021
The view as reporter Fiona Cassie drove into Taranaki last week for the Alert Level 3 funeral of her elderly father who died during lockdown

New Zealand Doctor reporter Fiona Cassie shares her experience of being unable to say goodbye to her father at his bedside when he died

When your father is frail and 90, your brain, if not your heart, knows you may not have him for much longer. And that you should always say, “I lo