Grieving is the process of letting go of fixed attention.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, physician and renowned expert on grieving, provides us with the five stages of grieving.
[Kübrel-Ross, E. (169). On Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan.]
The stages are:
- Denial and isolation - The initial stage.: "It can't be happening."
- Anger - "How dare you do this to me?!" (either referring to God, the deceased, or oneself)
- Bargaining - "Just let me live to see my son graduate."
- Depression - "God please don't take me away from my family"
- Acceptance:
"...[Source:Acceptance|acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it..."
Source: Wikipedia