Article published in the Guardian (07/08/20) by Amelia Hill on how the lack of touching is impacting our mental health and in particular those living alone.
A grieving resident of Otsuchi in Northern Japan placed an old telephone booth with a disconnected phone in his garden so that he could dial the number of his dead cousin. After the tsunami took the lives of 1,284 people, thousands of mourners begun to visit the phone booth to speak to their loved ones.
