Grief
Medical professionals are taught that there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. It is argued that those who grieve will experience each of these stages, although everyone experiences them differently. They occur in different orders; some people skip a stage and then come back to it. Some experience two stages simultaneously, and others flit from stage to stage to stage as grief swirls uncontrollably around them. I believe there is some truth to the...