dignity is thus rooted in our relationships with others, socially negotiated in our interactions and constructed through the telling or narrative of our life story. it may also be culturally mediated as suggest in a study of nurse from four different countries. the next step to defining dignity is to determine what component are essential to a dying person's sense of dignity. emerging research has begun to uncover some of the core domain of what comprise notion of dignity at the end of life and the various threats to the personal dignity