Opinion | Why the ‘Stages of Grief’ Need to Be Retired
Morse is a behavioral and developmental psychologist and thanatologist. I never had the honor to meet the famed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD (1926-2004), yet I have spent much of my career as a thanatologist getting to know her through her work on the five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (On Death and Dying, 1969). […]