Death and Dying in the Somali Culture

Culturally competent medical services in the medical field can have a significant impact on the satisfaction and treatment of guests at medical institutions that we participate in. In the central part of Minnesota we are pleased that there are various cultures in small areas. As many people emigrate from their hometown, it is important for medical professionals to understand the many different beliefs and traditions that we may encounter in personal and professional life.

The latest three books tell the story of contemporary death culture. They are targeting different audiences, but when they think together, they deepen our awareness of the current death culture and opportunity for transformation. This review article explores the direction of healthcare systems for those who die with the lenses provided by these books: Final Action: Death, Death, and editing by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry, our Selected Helen Stanton Chapple's Rescue Ideology, Hospice Care and Hospice Care by Stephen R. Connor. Each book identifies a particular aspect of a healthcare system that contributes to cultures that deny and resist death.

As a sociologist, I would like to know the relationship between culture and my death, death, and awareness of disease. Medical sociologist Catherine Alley has extensively reviewed the existing sociological literature on death and death. According to Eckersley and colleagues, Western societies including the United States are beginning to emphasize youth, vitality and health. Paradoxically from these values, death, death, and illness are often subject to taboo and sorrow. I can discuss these topics summarized (sometimes in my teaching). But when discussing death, death, and disease on an individual level, I become uncomfortable (I do not know how to worry, how to say or how to act). Regarding myself and lover, that is the same.