Anticipatory grief Anticipatory grief Anticipatory grief refers to a feeling of grief occurring before an impending loss. Typically, the impending loss is the death of someone close due to illness. This can be experienced by dying individuals themselves and can also be felt due to non-death-related losses like a scheduled mastectomy, pending divorce, company downsizing or war. The five stages namely, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her model of grief describe the process by which people undergo after a loss. Anxiety, dread, guilt, helplessness, hopelessness, and feelings of being overwhelmed are also common. However, it is
Kübler-Ross model also demonstrated that absence of grief or trauma symptoms is a healthy outcome. The lack of support in peer-reviewed research or objective clinical observation by many practitioners in the field has led to the labels of "myth" and "fallacy" in the notion that there are stages of grief. Nevertheless, the model's use has persisted in popular news and entertainment media including the animated sitcom "The Simpsons". Kübler-Ross model The Kübler-Ross model is popularly known as the five stages of grief, though more accurately, the model postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by terminally ill patients after diagnosis. The five