GRIEVING PROCESS AMONG BEREAVED FAMILY IN THE FUNERAL CEREMONY AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC : A LITERATURE REVIEW

Sudden death due to COVID-19, will have an impact on the family and causes
grief, devastating and traumatic. To prevent the Coronavirus high transmission
rate during pandemic has provided a new perspective on dying and rituals
worldwide and needs reform. Funeral practices that should give comfort and
support were not possible, which can increase feelings of isolation, loss, and
despair on family. This study aims to find out what information already exists in
the bereaved family grieving process related to the funeral ceremony policy
during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used literature review from 21
articles from four electronic databases: MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase, EBSCOhost,
and Scopus, and added the search from other references as grey literature. The
literature was reviewed chronologically to demonstrate how grieving process
went through by bereaved family related to the funeral policy during COVID-19
pandemic. The findings of the selected literature review and equipped with
grey literature, shows how family involvement in each funeral’s stage of the
deceased: planning, within and post ceremony, having a relationship and
impact on the priesthood and success of the grieving process on the family left
by Covid-19. We underline that it is essential to be present in the burial
process, starting from involvement in planning, attending, and believing the
funeral process and after it is necessary to note. Future research is still needed
to review more literature with a mix-method study. Thus, it can equally review
both studies to balance and mutually supportive