{"id":12,"date":"2005-01-08T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/01\/08\/on-death-and-dying\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T03:36:47","slug":"on-death-and-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/01\/08\/on-death-and-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"On Death and Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-12\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684839385\/qid=1110207693\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-5199987-5973613?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">On Death and Dying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author<\/strong>: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross<\/li>\n<li><strong>Softcover<\/strong>: 288<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher<\/strong>: Scribner; Reprint edition  (June 9, 1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN<\/strong>: 068483938<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read this book for two reasons. First, the company I work for is going through significant changes &#8211; I fear these changes will cause intense reactions not unlike the five stages of dying popularized by Ms Kubler-Ross. As I was noting these stages to a colleague, she said she&#8217;d like to read the book. As we were chatting on MSN, I went to Amazon, ordered the book and told her that she could read it when I was finished.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I read this book. It helped me understand some of my own feelings around dying; I visited my grandmother on my dad&#8217;s side just before she died, and we cared for my father at home until he passed away (for about 6 months). These experiences left me with lots of questions, and this book does help with some answers. I&#8217;ve also had some intense periods of my life with significant life changes at once (I had four of the top five life changes in one year &#8211; moving, marriage, death of a parent, and job change). <\/p>\n<p>But, the book is too long. There are pages of verbatim interviews with patients; I would have preferred a synopsis and more results.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Kubler-Ross&#8217;s graph of the five stages of dying:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fivestages.jpg\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"The Five Stages of Dying\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310 colorbox-12\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fivestages.jpg?resize=450%2C259\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The five stages of dying; I believe these are the five stages of significant life change.<\/p>\n<p>The text discusses when itsappropriate to talk with a person and when to let them push you away for a while and how to recognize acceptance, which are all important for caregivers to deal with. Anger is probably the hardest part &#8211; its important to be caring and to understand that the anger is usually a redirection from some other thing bothering the person.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this book!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-12\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 12);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-12\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-12\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: On Death and Dying Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Softcover: 288 Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (June 9, 1997) ISBN: 068483938 I read this book for two reasons. First, the company I work for is going through significant changes &#8211; I fear these changes will cause intense reactions not unlike the five stages of dying popularized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,44,52],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-death","tag-elizabeth-kubler-ross"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}