What are the 5 stages of grief?
The stages of grief have been a topic of debate in grief counseling since their introduction in 1969 by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her book “On Death and Dying”. These stages of grief can be loosely described as a cycle of emotions humans can expect to feel resulting from some type of unexpected loss. Grief is very normal and something most people will feel sometime in their lives, but to categorize their feelings into an arbitrary set of stages would not be realistic. In general, the stages of grief are described as Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. The bereavement community has been quick to accept and assign grief in stages probably to lend a sense of hope to those who are grieving and may see it as an endless proposition. In that regard, the stages of grief are extremely helpful because they reaffirm the fact that grief is normal and has been resolved successfully by countless people. Although these stages of grief appear nice and tidy it is doubtful that most pe
