zar bence's work involves trying to see the light in dark times as a funeral director and grief they're oppressed she prioritizes self-determined dying and grieving she worries about health dying has changed with the coronavirus . ending is this above all death has become much lonely yes i think that's what hurts people the most if not just those who are dying but also they loved ones that they can't say goodbye because they can't have physical contact that the visiting rules are so strict that making dying even how difficult that zahra bends has a video blog about death and mourning for which she produces films which she calls coffin stories. she says her aim is to build bridges. as a minister when i get the news that someone is dying then at 1st it's just something in my head from the way from my head to my heart is so much longer than just the distance between my hands it can be very helpful and comforting to really feel it to grow. but to really grasp it you have to be close by which the rules of the pandemic do not allow. in berlin. experienced that firsthand when the virus claimed