After more than 600,000 deaths from the pandemic, cemeteries should receive more visitors on the Day of the Dead this year than in 2019, according to Sincep (which brings together cemeteries and private crematoria).
“We live for two years with a greatly increased number of deaths, so there is a much larger contingent of mourners”, says Gisela Adissi, president of the organization.
Tent and toilet structures will be expanded. And the schedules should be more spaced out to dilute the flow of people, according to Adissi.
It will be the first All Souls Day in a hybrid format, with in-person and online programming. Last year, the traditional mass held on that date was broadcast over the internet. Now the practice has been incorporated by some companies.
In the Cortel Group cemeteries, face-to-face programming will be resumed, but with online transmission. The company is organizing events such as masses and ecumenical celebrations, live music and an animal adoption fair, but the food truck was canceled this year because of the pandemic.
The Parque das Cerejeiras Cemetery, in São Paulo, opted only for face-to-face activities, with mass and distribution of tree seedlings.
The director, Daniel Arantes, says that the cemetery is getting ready to receive a large number of visitors, but that there are still doubts about the number, as people are still afraid to leave the house.
with Mariana Grazini e Andressa Motter
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