Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Five Stages Of Grief Analysis

In my work, I will thoroughly describe Elisabeth Kubler- Ross’s theory that deals with the five stages of grief which includes denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I will also include African American culture and how Ross’s theory and African American culture applies to that theory and those five stages of grief. When applying Elisabeth Kubler- Ross’s theory to denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance to when someone experiences a death amongst a loved family member or friend. “They were never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages” (Kubler-Ross 2014, pg. 2. However, each of these stages are actually a necessity for people to get over a death. People have many responses with grieving the loss of a beloved family member or friend. And there is actually no predictable way of how someone will go through each stage. For instance, if a loved one is killed in an African American community from a tragic gunshot wound. People in that community might potentially be more accepting to death than a predominately Caucasian community. …show more content…
It is a major phase towards healing. We believe that we can do everything in our power to stop the death. For instance, sometimes we believe that we could have stopped the death maybe even by asking over beloved family member or friend to stay with them. They might pray to, God, to bring their family member back. “Please God,” you bargain, “I will never be angry at my wife again if you’ll just let her live.” (Kubler- Ross 2014, pg. 20). After we pray prayers such as that, they might essentially change. Such as a prayer might then consist of us saying “What if I do this or that?” We wonder if God can change our current situation. Or maybe if he could even possibly rewind back time so that we can see our loved one at least one last time. We try to sort out all the things that we can do to eliminate the pain from a