The following series of posts outline the traditional “stages” of grief as presented in Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s On Death and Dying (1969). The stages are: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. This post addresses denial. Grief 101 Please see my Grief 101 post called “The Five Stages of Grief” for a brief discussion of the five-stages.ContinueContinue reading “Grief 101: Denial”
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The Trouble with Coronavirus: How COVID-19 is Challenging American Acceptance of Death
Like many people, I am interested in information about COVID-19. I read news and journal articles about the pandemic and the scientific communities prescribed methods of handling it. I follow the debates about masks and the realness of the disease. I watch people flood beaches and vacation as though the virus isn’t spreading. I listenContinueContinue reading “The Trouble with Coronavirus: How COVID-19 is Challenging American Acceptance of Death”