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Paper Abstract: Reviews Kubler-Ross' book on death & the stages of dying & grief. Paper Introduction: Book Review On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Themes and Ideas The information in this book is very familiar. Much of what Elisabeth Kubler-Ross said in this book has become part of common knowledge, taught in the schools as the stages of grief and loss. She developed her model through work with patients and through discussions in an interdisciplinary seminar. Her observations and experiences led her to conclude that dying patients pass through five distinct stages during their dying process. Denial. In the first stage, the patient's immediate Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. Acceptance. Instead, she keeps showing how all these feelings belong to theexperience and are appropriate. Much of what ElisabethKubler-Ross said in this book has become part of common knowledge, taughtin the schools as the stages of grief and loss. They are resentful, blaming, andenvious, and tend to be stuck in a refusal to accept their situation. They are madat the doctors, their families, and God. Bargaining. In the second stage of the process, patients recognize thatthey have a terminal illness, but they become mad about it. In the first stage, the patient's immediate reaction is arefusal to believe in the diagnosis, particularly if it is terminal.Patients deny that it is true, deny the seriousness of their disease orcondition, and deny the possibility of their death. When their bargaining proves to be ineffective, andpatients recognize that they are stuck with dying, they tend to becomedepressed. It is a book aboutdying and this makes it melancholy in some ways. Still, doctors, nurses, family, and friends, allhave their own feelings about the dying process and they can learn fromthis book how to address their own feelings and provide a non-anxiouspresence for the dying patient. Shedoes not ask people to suppress their feelings or deny any particularfeelings. Kubler-Ross is a very honest writer. As Kubler-Rossnoted, acceptance is not a happy phase, but a time when the patient hasstopped struggling and is letting go into death. She developed her model through work with patients and throughdiscussions in an interdisciplinary seminar. Her observations andexperiences led her to conclude that dying patients pass through fivedistinct stages during their dying process. Anger. Interestingly enough, Kubler-Ross indicated that the one thing thatall the patients held on to, through all the stages, was hope. Reading the stories ofpeople who are dying and their family members makes death very real, andthe difficulty of the dying process becomes apparent. This refusal leads them to try to bargain their way outof the situation, often with God, although sometimes with the doctors.They might say something like, "God, if you heal me, I'll never smokeagain" or something to that effect. Yet it seemsintegral here.Personal Opinion Much of the information in the book was familiar, but it was useful toread it in the original form. This book was enjoyable, although it was also sad. For the most part, people do not get stuck in any one feelingfor very long. It is a process of dying thatmany people are involved in, although the patient is the individual at thecenter of the process. Book Review On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kubler-RossThemes and Ideas The information in this book is very familiar. Patients return tothis position throughout the dying process, sometimes denying that thingsare as bad as they are and proceeding to get worse. This isvery seldom discussed in talk about the stages of death. Essentially, in thisstage the patient has come to terms with the situation and, if not ready todie, has made peace with the fact that he or she is dying. The feelings keep moving. She also had much to say about families andtheir feelings and reactions, for instance. Denial. Depression. In many instances, fortunately, patients enter a finalstage which Kubler-Ross termed the acceptance stage. This is a very helpful book, though, in thinking about dying, grief,loss, and all kinds of feelings. As noted in the summary of the book's ideas,Kubler-Ross had more things to say about death and dying that just thediscussion of the five stages. She also shows us how the feelings keepchanging. They feel hopeless and helpless and lose all motivation. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.