Death Online Research Symposium #5, 2021 Panel 5: Changing rituals Ritual change in the Covid-19 pandemic (Oral presentation) Andreia Vicente da Silva (Unioeste, Brazil). In this communication, my goal is to highlight some elements concerning the changes in the death rituals in the pandemic context in Brazil from the insertion of new technologies. A Pentecostal death rite that took place in Toledo, Paraná, in the south of Brazil, will serve to contextualize the ongoing transformations that are thought from a procedural historical point of view. I bet on the idea that changes in funerary rites cannot be considered only as caused by the pandemic context; they are related to transformations that were already underway in the Brazilian Pentecostal historical process. I will now present the case and briefly point out some reflections on the mediatization of the rites. Adalberto was a truck driver, a Pentecostal, and was 73 years old. In an interview via Google Meet, his wife and daughter told me about their relative's illness, death, and burial process. With a sore throat, body pain, cough, and fever, Adalberto "walked on his own into the ambulance" and remained in the Bom Jesus Hospital for eight days. During the initial period of stay in the Covid ward of the hospital, he carried the cell phone with which he communicated with relatives and friends. The last time they spoke was through a voice message in which he, panting, warned that the doctor would intubate him. Three days later, Adalberto died. The