Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast, episode 396. The Drapolcast is a weekly

audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

This week on the treblecast, a trifecta special.

Trifecta special. Trifecta specials feature three different authors read by three different

narrators all around one subject. This week on the decast we talk about loss.

Specifically the five stages of grief and don't worry it

won't get super depressing we're more focused on the stages of loss here

really than the nitty gritty tragedy. The five stages of grief model was first

introduced by Swiss American psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubla Ross in her

1969 book on death and dying and was inspired by her work with terminally ill patients

motivated by the lack of instruction in medical schools on the subject of death and dying

Kubler Ross examined death and those facing it at the University of Chicago Medical School.

The model postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by terminal ill

patients after diagnosis.

The five stages are chronologically denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Dabda, if you remember things through a nonsensical acronym.

Now, big thing that Cuba Ross would definitely have me note,

these were never meant to help talk people away more their messy and complex emotions

into tiny neat five-step packages.

There is no typical loss,

and so there is no typical response to loss.

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