Stories: An Overwhelming Loss: 13-indra-A-11

East Boston, MA - 4/29/20 - After tending to three funerals earlier in the day, funeral director Joe Ruggiero III got a call shortly after 8pm to retrieve the body of a man who had died at home. Ruggiero and assistant funeral director Nick Verrocchi worked together to move the man’s body out of his home in East Boston. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

East Boston, MA - 4/29/20 - After tending to three funerals earlier in the day, funeral director Joe Ruggiero III got a call shortly after 8pm to retrieve the body of a man who had died at home. Ruggiero and assistant funeral director Nick Verrocchi worked together to move the man’s body out of his home in East Boston. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)