The Five Stages Of Living With Mortality

In the book, Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy, Malin Dollinger, M.D, and Bernard Dubrow, M.S., describe the five stages of living with mortality. According to Dollinger and Dubrow, "When faced with the threat of death or dying, many patients and their families turn for understanding and guidance to the highly regarded work of Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross." Dr Ross is famous for defining five stages of mourning; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But the authors stress that this model may not apply to newly diagnosed cancer patients because they have been told that they have a "potentially" fatal illness that may or may not be imminent. Dollinger and Dubrow feel that disbelief, discovery, redirection, resolution and emerging victorious more accurately apply in this case.
I like number five: Emerging Victorious!
Feel good and keep smiling! Pat