Society’s attitude about death is defined with the views of the individual. All of the attitudes can be attributed to how someone is raised and the ideas that impacted their lives. For example, if someone is raised in a church that believes that you are born again, then when our physical bodies die our spirit goes to be in heaven and they will see each other again. This is just one of many examples. Others believe that we are reincarnated and come back in another form or nothing happens at all when you die. Overall it is believed that death is a part of life and ultimately there is no argument for what the final outcome of death. People will often try to make death sound more pleasant by using phrases like passed away or passed on. When you hear about the birth of a baby into a family there is much excitement when the news is spread, however when the idea that a person is about to die there is usually a lot of stress, anxiety and fear. If an individual has a fear of death or thinks they can avoid death then there are seminars and classes that can be taken to try to deal with any anxiety that can be felt because of this. I work in an environment where there can be death every day. I have had a fear of death before and still sometimes still feel scared. It is my hope that as I continue to work I will become less fearful and learns from the others that I am working around. Many of the residents that I work with seem like they are ready to die and they have a plan in place with their families to help with this. It gives the person a way to express how they want their final days. It is not easy to watch a loved one’s health deteriorate, and all the preparation for this does not always make things easy for the family. They know that they have made them as comfortable as possible for this process to happen. It is my hope that as I continue to work that I will learn more and understand that death is not something that I need to fear, but that I will be able to help others as they prepare to die. Life for the elderly whether they are considered a minority or not, however you can look at the problems with ethnic elders a little differently based on their culture, their finances throughout their adult years and if they lived in a low income situations throughout their adult years. They may have struggled throughout their lives and when they get older, then they may not be able to afford the health care and medicine needed to keep a good quality of life, therefore they health my decline faster which will result in them dying younger. Their families may also be in poverty situations and not be able to provide help either. While the government has put some programs in place to help minorities sometimes when they receive the help it is too late. Medicare is a part of a program that helps the elderly with health care but there are still expenses that the elderly is responsible for. Ethic elderly people also may have a problem based on their language. If they cannot speak English then and there is no translator then they would not know the services available to them or people to help them understand. The loss of their independence and their denial of the things that they can no longer do is just the beginning of the issues that face all elderly in today’s society. Our nation has many problems today and the way to help the elderly is only one that faces big challenges in the coming years as policies change and budgets are cut. This will hurt all elderly not just the minorities.