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Film, Video Karoline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-03

Video recording of interview with Karoline Davidson conducted by Joél Maldonado.

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Title

  • Karoline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-03

Summary

  • Karoline Davidson is a certified celebrant, crematory operator, funeral director, and embalmer who started her funeral service career in 2007 as an unlicensed funeral attendant. During this interview, Ms. Davidson shares her challenges with compassion fatigue and burnout while servicing families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Davidson also recalls a service she arranged for a nurse who contracted COVID-19 while working in a clinical setting. She also shared a creative helium balloon memorial that was created by funeral home management. This creative memorial allowed participation, while being in-compliance, of social distancing restrictions.

Names

  • Davidson, Karoline, interviewee
  • Maldonado, Joél Simone, interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-06-03.

Headings

  • -  Davidson, Karoline--Interviews
  • -  Undertakers and undertaking--United States--Interviews
  • -  Undertakers and undertaking--Technological innovations
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Psychological aspects
  • -  Employee morale

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2020-2030
  • Video recordings
  • Personal narratives
  • Oral histories
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Recorded virtually via Zoom, 2024-06-03.
  • -  Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Medium

  • 1 video file (MOV, 62:29) : digital, sound, color
  • 1 photograph : digital, color, JPG
  • 1 document file (PDF) : digital, text

Source Collection

  • Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 AFC 2023/018

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024655324

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  • pdf
  • video

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Credit line

It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago citation style:

Davidson, Karoline, Interviewee, and Joél Simone Maldonado. Karoline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, -06-03. -06-03, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655324/.

APA citation style:

Davidson, K. & Maldonado, J. S. (2024) Karoline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, -06-03. -06-03. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655324/.

MLA citation style:

Davidson, Karoline, Interviewee, and Joél Simone Maldonado. Karoline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, -06-03. -06-03, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655324/>.