FILE PHOTO: Julie Grasset poses with a portrait of her father Patrick Grasset, who is one of nearly 100,000 people in France to have died of COVID-19, at her home in Levallois-Perret near Paris, France, April 9, 2021. Picture taken April 9, 2021. REUTERS/Noemie Olive
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France (Reuters) - Patrick Grasset is one of 100,000 people in France to have died of COVID-19, a milestone reached when the official death toll from the pandemic was updated on Thursday, but his daughter Julie wants him to be remembered as her father, not a statistic.
The hardest thing about the pandemic, she said, was the way it makes death anonymous and impersonal.
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