Analysis Of Dr. Nicholas Woterstorff's Five Stages Of Grief

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In this analytical paper, the writer describes Dr. Nicholas Woterstorff’s bitter experience of the death of his son Eric who died while climbing on the mountain. Also, explain how the Woterstorff’s passes through the stage of griefs and come out of it by accommodating himself in the faith on God. Besides that The writer will explain the Wolterstorff’s expression of five stages of grief denial to acceptance, the way of finding the joy, hope, comfort, and meaning of death from the Christian perspectives. Five Stages of Grief All over the world and every walk of life, people experience the loss, and mourning as part of the normal life. Mourning usually occurs as a response of loss of relationship with the person, people or even animals with whom you are attached to such as death of a loved one, terminal illness, loss of your pets and animals. There are five stages of the normal grieving process: denial or isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance; the grieving process Why did he not go to somebody and securely?. He further added that it is absolutely wrong to bury once own son who supposed to bury his own father (Wolterstorff, 1987). Anger is a natural process directed toward the love ones who is dying or in the dying process. As a health care professional, we deal anger frequently, that does not mean we are immune to our patient’s suffering and those people who grieve for patients. We have to give extra time to explain patient illness and detail the diagnosis, treatment plan, and prognosis of patients to their loved one. Anger is a feeling that an individual expresses when become hopelessness or loss of a loved one. As an example, sometimes, Patient 's kin interest expresses their anger towards health care workers when we are unable to save the patient 's life after the

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