I was in for a dull sort of day when my feet hit the floor that morning, but by mid-afternoon, my world had turned upside down. My sister-in-law and her husband visited to tell us the tumours in her brain hadn’t shrunk following rounds of radiation and chemotherapy. She died three weeks short of the Read more
It’s 50 years since Swiss-born pioneer in death studies Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote her classic text, On Death and Dying. The book introduced readers to the “five stages of grief” model she had developed to explain how people cope with death. The five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. Then in 1995, following a Read more