Sorgarferlið

Stig sem Kubler-Ross skilgreindi:

• Denial (this isn't happening to me!)
• Anger (why is this happening to me?)
• Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)
• Depression (I don't care anymore)
• Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)

 

Þau koma ekki endilega í þessari röð heldur mismunandi. Þetta er ein skilgreiningin á sorgarferlinu.

 

If you're going through hell
keep on going,
don't slow down
if you're scared, don't show it
you might get out before the devil even knows
you're there.

        --Lyrics of a country song by Rodney Atkins (1969- ) - af consolatio.com

 

The prophet - Khalil Gibran

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."

And he said:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.