The Five Stages of Grief and Loss

You may have heard that there are five stages of grief This is one approach to thinking about grief that many people have found helpful Originally developed by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and published in her book On Death and Dying these stages are denial anger bargaining depression and acceptance They are a broad description of some of the kinds of feelings one may experience while grieving a loss Our video helps familiarize you with these stages so that you can begin to understand what you a loved one or a friend may be going through in the days and months following a death

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