So far my entire life consist of over thinking and questioning what it means to live and die. After losing my mother to Breast Cancer February 2 2016, I often found myself crying till my head started pounding and unfortunately I stopped believing in life. I started questioning whether everything I worked hard for was worth it, considering that I would one day, die and lose it all. When I lost my mother it felt as if I lost apart of myself and even till this day, I continue to search for that missing piece. …show more content…
There are five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Through my personal experience I discovered that not every maneuvers through these stages in an orderly manner or at the same pace.
As we all know by now no single human being is the same, even twins are not 100% the same. With this being said, every one deals with grief differently; but many people deal with grief in the form of the five state of grief. This paper is written about the stages of grief that I have completed and I am now dealing with. Unfortunately I am still dealing with depression and doubt I will reach the acceptance stage any time soon. Everyone reacts differently to death and employs personal coping mechanisms for grief. (Clay, Rebecca