WBGO Journal Podcast

‘The back end of the frontline': How N.J.’s ‘death care’ workers are coping with COVID-19


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Jeff Dodgson organizes so many burials now he sometimes doesn’t realize an acquaintance has died until he is preparing their final resting place. “People I’ve known from working here for so long, people I would see a couple times a year, or people I would plant flowers for,” said Dodgson, foreman of the Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield. “I’m out marking a grave, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, this was Mrs. So-and-So.’” The cemetery Dodgson operates in Essex County, one of the hardest-hit areas in a
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