Ruth Kubler-Ross Model

In 1969, Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced her “Kübler-Ross Model,” also known as, “The Five Stages of Death and Dying.” The five-stage model was described by Kübler-Ross as following: “The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the ones we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief” (Brainy Quote). Kübler-Ross felt that it was important to emphasize that these stages are not definite. Every person may experience the stages differently, and may not even encounter all five stages. The timing, duration, and order of the stages is flexible,
Each stage is described with loose guidelines, because they are experienced differently with interchanging interpretations.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss psychiatrist born in 1926 in Zurich, Switzerland. As an infant, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross had a brush with death, only weighing two pounds when she and her other siblings were born as triplets. At a young age, Kübler-Ross became interested in healing and medicine and wanted to become a doctor. This, her father forbade, and he gave her two options; becoming a maid or a secretary in the family business. This was outrageous to Kübler-Ross, and at 16 she left home to become a hospital volunteer in World War Two. Also, along with volunteering in war-stricken communities, Kübler-Ross took care of refugees, and even visited the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland after the war. This particular experience of visiting the concentration camp was a major factor in Kübler-Ross’s interest in death and dying. In 1951, she started medical school at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. There, she met her husband Emanuel Robert Ross. The couple got married in 1958, and moved to the United States to do internships at Community
This stage can be one of the most devastating stages to someone’s physical and mental health while coming to terms with death. This stage could last thirty days, or thirty years; there is no set time limit, and some may never escape this stage. Anger comes after denial wears off, and can be described as coming back down from a false reality. According to Psycom.net, “Researchers and mental health professionals agree that this anger is a necessary stage of grief.” It is necessary to feel the anger, and get it all out. However, if this stage lasts too long, this could affect the mental health of the person dealing with the grief. During this stage, many people blame God, or whoever it might be that they worship. They blame these beings for not protecting them, or for cursing them with something they don’t deserve. Also, many people become angry at themselves, because they feel as though they didn’t do enough to stop death. People facing terminal illness typically become angry at the doctor and/or the healthcare staff that is providing care. After time, most people’s anger will fade and they will enter a new