ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses: palliative and end-of-life care services; the UK and the USA ethnic classification and a further need for intersectionality; death and dying main concerns for ethnic minorities in the UK and the USA as per the literature. The journey through life has an end and an ending process: physical death and physical dying. The chapter aims to contribute to the debate over what a "good" or "positive" death and dying process might mean. It discusses four components: a definition and characterisation of palliative and EoL care services; how ethnic minorities are classified in both countries; how more culturally sensitive communicational and intersectional approaches could capture the complexities of identity markers in minorities around physical death and the process of dying; and what the literature in both countries, supported by some empirical data from a one-year study in the UK illustrate are common themes in both countries for minorities in general and for some country-specific groups.
