Women, death, and dying / Joan M. Merdinger -- The Roman Catholic/Christian church and AIDS / Ursula M. Gerty -- Judaism and death : practice implications / George S. Getzel -- Walking through the valley of the shadow of death : grief and fundamentalism / Gary R. Anderson -- Death and dying : an Islamic perspective / Ahmed H. Sakr -- Buddhism, death, and dying / Wing Yeung -- Death, dying, and religion among Domincan immigrants / Ana M. Paulino -- Mexican-American women : death and dying / Juliette S. Silva -- Spirituality and death and dying from a gay perspective / David A. Housel --The lesbian perspective on death and dying / Idella M. Evans and Julie Carter -- Guinea across the water : the African-American approach to death and dying / John L. Bolling -- May the circle be unbroken : the African-American experience of death, dying, and spirituality / Martha Adams Sullivan -- Understanding death, dying, and religion : a Chinese perspective / Peter Ching-Yung Lee -- Death, dying, and grief in the Chinese-American culture / Jane G. Tanner -- The Korean perspective on death and dying / Daniel B. Lee -- The Filipino perspective on death and dying / Ihande Weber.