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The Five Stages Of Grieving
Imagine going to a doctor’s appointment where they tell you that you only have a couple months to life. How would you feel? Sad? Angry? Devastated? Receiving the devastating news that ones life will end so soon makes you wonder why me? When it comes to loosing a love one or something that means the world to you grieving can oftentimes be difficult to deal with. There are five stages of grieving: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Those stages do not have a set time when they happened. A person can be in one of the stages for months or up to years.
Kubler-Ross is a theorist that explains these stages in his model known as the five stages of grief. He tries to explain that there are several of emotions that are experience …show more content…
Ann is a twenty-three year old female who is marry and is the mother of two young girls. Ann works at a University as a janitor. Ann’s life took a completed different direct when at a regular doctors visit they told her that she had ovarian cancer that had metastasis to the surrounding tissue and organs. Her diagnosis looked bad and the doctor told her that she has around two months to life. When Ann received the news, she was shock and could not believe what was happening to her. She asked her doctor not to tell her family about her diagnosis. Ann decided to keep this to herself until the day she passes away. Ann decided to create a list that had 10 things to do before she died. Her list had the following items: “Tell my daughters I love them several times, Find Don a new wife who the girls like, record birthday messages for the girls for every year until they're 18, go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic, smoke and drink as much as I want, say what I'm thinking, make love with other men to see what it's like, make someone fall in love with me, go and see Dad in Jail and get false nails & do something with my hair.” Before she died she was able to complete her list. However, Ann never told anyone that she was dying; the only person who knew that she was dying was her
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