Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Whilst researching into the emotional side of grief I stumbled across Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the five stages of grief; Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. These steps are not used as rigid stages which the sufferer goes through but developed to be a model or a guide through the emotional phases, which can occur in any order.

In my opinion grief is the progression of spiralling stages which are very fragmented leading you in different directions, often looping back to early stages of grief and having the sufferer go through it again. Greif cocoons you but with luck eventually we open out of the cocoon of memories and fragments reaching accepting the loss.