Five Stages of Grief in 14 Days

[Natasha]

Five Stages of Grief in 14 Days

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/five_stages_of_grief_in_14_days.php
Kate Kendell
November 19, 2008 12:30 PM

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.

In the past five years, I've become more familiar than I would have liked with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief. In that time, both of my parents and my baby brother died, all too young--and in the case of my 40-year-old brother, completely unexpectedly. I'm not actually sure I've ever really made it to acceptance; rather, I seem to be in a permanent state of resignation.

On the evening of November 4, right around the time it was becoming November 5, I felt the wash of grief all over again. It felt much like when my family members died: many others around my world are going on with their lives--in this case many of them ecstatic over the election of Barack Obama--yet I, and in this case my No on Prop 8 family, are shell-shocked at the passage of this unprecedented assault on the California constitution and the rights of the LGBT community in California.