Question

Explore Kubler-Ross Stages of loss and grief (chapter 17) and relate them to your personal experience regarding the changes you’ve experienced regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Have you gone through any of the grief stages?

What kinds of behavior did you demonstrate?

Please share your experience including feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in addition to naming which stage in Kubler-Ross theory best fits with each experience.

Also please reference how anticipatory grief has factored in your thoughts and behaviors.

Answer 1

There are five stages of a dying person. The first stage is denial when the person does not want to believe that he is going to die or there is a threat of life. The second stage is anger. In this stage the individual feels anger. This anger may be anger to fate and himself. The third stage is called bargaining. In this stage the individual is in conflict and tries to find out a way. The fourth stage is the stage of depression. In this stage the individual finds sadness and feels a lot. According to Kubler-Ross, many people ultimately move into a final stage of the level of acceptance. At this stage the dying persons are no longer angry and depressed.

I never experienced such stage for the threat of COVID-19. But I have come to know the experience of my friend who has been cured from the COVID-19. He experienced the first stage, second stage, third stage and fourth stage. He was really depressed. He at first did not believe. Then he was angry to himself and tom others. In the third stage he prayed to God to save himself. He was really depressed. Then he was declared suddenly the COVID-19 free person.