Dealing with Illness and Grief
Describes how people deal with serious illness in themselves and others (including children):
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Dealing with Illness and Grief

Culture and Grief

Grief in isolation is a potentially distressing experience for anyone. Where there also exist cultural issues such as religious perspectives these can bring additional pressures - especially if they are not given due weight by those who are working with the grieving.

Questions that might help those assisting those who are grieving include:

1. What are the cultural rituals for coping with dying, the deceased person's body, the final arrangements for the body, and honoring the death?


2. What are the family's beliefs about what happens after death?


3. What does the family feel is a normal expression of grief and the acceptance of the loss?


4. What does the family consider to be the roles of each family member in handling the death?

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