Someone held Stephen Solomon’s hand as he was dying. But it was not his daughter.

His son hoisted the spadefuls of earth that are customary during a Jewish burial. But his wife, sick with the coronavirus and quarantined at home, was not there.

No one heard a military honor guard play taps for Mr. Solomon, a Coast Guard veteran. And no one accepted a crisply folded American flag, offered on behalf of a grateful nation. Those things never happened.

In the United States, the coronavirus has stolen far more than 18,466 lives.

It has robbed families of the rituals that follow death.

Funeral services at most churches, synagogues, temples and mosques have been suspended indefinitely by social-distancing orders meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Wakes, if they happen at all, are limited to five — sometimes 10 — immediate family members.