Q: How the person experiences death and dying and how that experience may be different than your ethnic/cultural experience?
Amira told me that she experienced death and dying when she was 20 years old. She lost her dad …show more content…
They will come and support the deceased family. Some people come and stay overnight with the family to console the family. For her culture, the way they cope with the loss is to accept the truth, read the Quran and pray. Even children that know how to pray, will pray. For my culture, we usually sing, pray, and read the bible. We were black dress or shirt to show our deep sympathy and respect during the mourning period. On the other hand, for Somalis culture, the spouse of the deceased wear white attire or white to cover their head. For women who lost their husband, they wore white dresses and white hair attire for 4 months (A. Bashir, personal interview, November 21,