Edwina FitzPatrick’s online UK support group aims to help people whose partners have died of coronavirus
When Edwina FitzPatrick lost the love of her life to coronavirus, she was plunged into such a profound state of grief, full of nightmares and darkness, she thought about ending her own life. But as the days without her husband, Nik Devlin, the 250th person in Britain to die from the disease, turned into weeks and months, her thoughts turned to the collective grief experienced by tens of thousands of people like her and how best to help them.
FitzPatrick, 59, an artist who runs a postgraduate course at the University of the Arts, London, has set up a series of free online support groups, called CovidSpeakEasy, to allow people whose partners have died from the virus to tell their stories and share their experiences.
