Stages of Dying

The five stages of grief developed by Kubler Ross gives a series of emotions that patients who are terminally ill experience before their death or anyone who has lost a loved one (Mahmood, 2016).  The stages include the following. The denial stage is where one believes that the diagnosis is wrong. The anger stage where one becomes frustrated and starts to ask a question like why me? In the bargaining stage, one endures the endless what-if statements. Also, in a way, this stage is a false hope stage because one falsely believes that he/she can avoid grief through negotiation that if you change this, I will change that. The Depression stage represents the empties that one feels. One can feel numb, hopeless, and withdraw from life. The final stage is the acceptance stage, where emotions begin to stabilize, and one comes to terms with the new reality (Mahmood, 2016).

Kubler Ross’s stages of grief are acceptable in today’s 2020 healthcare. Healthcare providers encounter dying patients in their profession. It is a difficult transition for the patients, their loved ones, and healthcare provider to go through. A better understanding of stages of grief will help the healthcare provider guide and support the patient and their loved ones through the process. The stages make medical professionals aware of and sensitive to the emotional needs of a dying patient.  Kubler Ross also interviewed terminally ill patients, and from the responses, she developed the five stages, which means the stages apply to the present dying patients (Mahmood, 2016).  

Charles Corr became the main opponent to Kubler Ross’s stage theory by reviewing the earlier criticism, such as lack of evidence that people coping with their grief go through all the five stages in order (Kemp, 2015). Charles Corr stresses coping strategies because people react differently to the challenges they are experiencing, for example, dealing with unfinished needs in social, psychological, spiritual, and physical domains. They don’t follow a similar pattern (Corr & Corr, 2012). 

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References

Corr, C. A., & Corr, D. M. (2012). Death & Dying, Life & Living. Cengage Learning.

Kemp, A. R. (2015). Death, Dying, and Bereavement in a Changing World. Routledge.

Mahmood, K. (2016). Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross stages of dying and phenomenology of grief. Annals of King Edward Medical University, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.21649/akemu.v12i2.882