Everyone has a chance to experience grief in their life. Dealing with grief, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross has developed a model of “The Five Stages of Grief”. People can overcome five stages process in order to understand loss and move on in their life.
Why do I choose the topic?
My grandmother passed away in November 2015 in a sudden in age 92. She has long term heart disease and hypertension, most of her body function has declined. She always turns over the hospital. Nevertheless, she remains positive attitudes towards life and smiling on her face when I visit her every time. Her death brings a deep grief to all my family members. It drives me “crazy” and indescribable feelings as I have a deep feeling with her.
During the period, I do not have any ideas to support my family. I always ask myself “What can I do to help …show more content…
When there is loss of someone or something very dear to us, such as death or loss of beloved pets. People may feel sadness, anger and fear. This is not an individual process but family procedure instead. Grief cannot be shared but throughout the process, individuals can identify and accepting their emotions. It is also an acknowledgement about time that some people undergo with a month, half a year or several years, so we have to be patient on it. We can define grief is a good procedure that it helps people heal with their pain. However, traumatic deaths may lead grief to be more complicated, if people fail in the progress. For example, delayed and getting “stuck” in it. Grief experience may last for few years.
The ways to cope with grief (The Five Stages of Grief)
The Five Stages of Grief guides people the way to express the emotions with the outcome of continue the life. The five stages included: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Not everyone will experience all those stages, but people can invest their new life once they get through these stages.