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Observations from Rev. Wayne Giesler, Hospice chaplain and member of Christ the King:
I have found myself going through the 7 stages of grief over the sense of the loss of normalcy:
1) Shock - initial paralysis at hearing the bad news
2) Denial - trying to avoid the inevitable
3) Anger - frustrated outpouring of bottled-up emotion
4) Bargaining - seeking in vain for a way out
5) Depression - final realization of the inevitable
6) Testing - seeking realistic solutions
7) Acceptance - finding the way forward
- Modified Kubler-Ross Model
