It was being used a bit before Covid but the pandemic definitely made livestreaming a more common option for all sorts of major life events including birthdays, holidays, weddings and especially funerals.
This has come in handy a few times recently – over the summer when a former coworker died of stage four breast cancer, we were camping in Weyburn but I was able to “attend” the funeral from there instead of making a 2.5 hour round trip into the city.
Then again, when a guy I graduated high school died of Covid in Medicine Hat about a month ago, I was able to see an online archive of his funeral after a friend sent it to me.
And most recently, just this past Monday, when a family friend who farmed very near our farm, whose wife nursed with my mom for years, and whose kids I even babysat occasionally, died of cancer. Even though I wasn’t able to attend in person or even watch live, I was again able to watch the archived livestream after the fact which was nice given I couldn’t be there in person.
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