Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study

acceptance afterlife age groups Angeles Anglo Americans asked attended attitudes behavior believe bereavement Black Americans body Buddhist burial casket Catholic cemetery ceremony chi square tests church compared concern correlation cremation culture dead death and dying death-related deceased devout died discussed dying person elderly emotional ethnic groups expected experience expression familistic family members fear of death feelings felt fewer frequently friends funeral director funeral service grave gravesite grief half homicide important individual interview Issei Japanese American community Japanese language Kalish koden least less live Los Angeles County Male Female Memorial Day Mexican American respondents middle-aged mourning Nisei older persons one's pain participate patients perhaps physician preferred Question/Response questions relationship relatively religious rituals role Sansei selected sense significantly social social class someone spouse subcultures suicide survey told tragic trend wish woman women young