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
Smiling at Grief archive programme, released on CD in 1997 on MSI Records with five bonus tracks recorded prior to the main sessions at the band's rehearsal venue, Burghfield Mill, Reading. This CD is now out-of-print. "Smiling at Grief" is the first of the Twelfth Night "definitive releases" by Festival Music to be released in March 2009 Disc One – Smiling at Grief' Tracks 1-9 are the original "Smiling at Grief" cassette album, recorded at Woodcray Manor Farm Studios, Berkshire, November 1981. Tracks 10-14 were bonus tracks first released on the 1997 MSI CD reissue. These were recorded at Burghfield Mill, Reading, in