ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to give the care provider a sense of the social and cultural environment in which grieving people live, and convey the importance of respecting who they are and the societal norms and cultural legacies that influence their grief. Everybody grieves: old-young, incarcerated-free, religious-nonbelievers, foreign born-native born, rich-poor. Death and traumatic loss are part of being alive. Not wanting to talk about it is very human.
