The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a plea to crematoriums and local authorities to ensure they treat those who die during the coronavirus lockdown with dignity.
“Don’t just dispose of bodies like we did in the foot-and-mouth episode with cattle.
“Human beings must be said goodbye to with dignity even when it has to be swift and with very few people there,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show.
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The head of the Church of England advised people who had lost loved ones to “plan a thanksgiving and a memorial service for after this nightmare, as you rightly called it, is over.
“At the end of it, we will celebrate, we will grieve, we will have parties, we will have wakes, we will remember those we have lost.”
