Last responders: Funeral workers in the age of COVID

A crematorium employee moves an empty coffin during the cremation of a person who died of the coronavirus at tmore

Funeral director and publican Jasper Murphy of McCarthy's Bar and Undertakers drives his hearse with a preparemore

A funeral director makes final checks on a deceased person ahead of her funeral in the chapel of rest at W. Udmore

An aerial view shows municipality workers burying a coffin at a funeral area provided by the government for vimore

Municipal healthcare workers examine the body of Shirlene Morais Costa, who died at home at the age of 53 aftemore

A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces, who volunteered to work in a cemetery, wears a protective suit asmore

Alisha Narvaez, 36, the manager and Nicole Warring, 33, a Resident Funeral Director at International Funeral &more

Gravediggers wearing protective suits gather at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulomore

A coffin sits under a plastic cover as a precaution while undertaker Cassandra Yousef makes final preparationsmore

A mortuary worker checks the hand of a deceased person in the mortuary at Poppy's Funerals in Lambeth Cemeterymore

Workers of a funeral parlor move a coffin containing the body of a person who died of the coronavirus at the Imore

Municipality workers carry a coffin at a cemetery complex provided by the government for coronavirus victims imore

Funeral Director Omar Rodriguez looks over caskets of bodies at the Gerard J. Neufeld funeral home in the Queemore

Workers of Funeral SOS, wearing protective clothing, prepare to remove the coffin of Antonio Freitas at his homore

Municipal workers in protective gear prepare to cremate the body a man who died due to coronavirus at a crematmore

Gravediggers wearing protective garments work as relatives of Neide Rodrigues, 71, who died of coronavirus, atmore

Gravediggers prepare the coffin of Antonio Marciano, 65, who is suspected to have passed away from the coronavmore

Gravediggers rest as they wait for new coffins at a cemetery complex provided by the government for coronavirumore

A man offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force officer who died from the coronavirus at a gramore

Carlos Acuna, 52, works at a cremation oven as the number of deaths continue to rise due to the coronavirus oumore

Michael Neel, funeral director of of All Veterans Funeral and Cremation, wearing full PPE, looks at the U.S. fmore

Funeral vehicles stand in front of a morgue to carry coffins of coronavirus victims to cemeteries in Istanbul,more

A gravedigger walks at the Parque Taruma cemetery during the coronavirus outbreak in Manaus, Brazil, May 6. REmore

Gravediggers open new graves at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April more

Family members and funeral workers carry the coffin of a 51-year-old man who died from the coronavirus at a cemore

Funeral workers remove the body of a coronavirus victim from a hearse at a funeral parlor, in Ciudad Juarez, Mmore

Workers at a crematory in Nezahualcoyotl during the outbreak of the coronavirus on the outskirts of Mexico Citmore

A worker prepares a coffin for coronavirus victims in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 28. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulmore

Men wearing protective gear bury the body of Nigerian president's chief of staff, Abba Kyari, who died after cmore

Gravediggers carry the coffin of Antonia Rodrigues, who passed away from the coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Bmore

A funeral service worker looks at coffins of two victims of coronavirus during a burial ceremony in the southemore

Relatives watch as gravediggers wearing protective suits bury the coffin of a man who died of the coronavirus,more

A mortuary worker is pictured amid coffins in Brussels, Belgium, April 9. REUTERS/Yves Herman