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  • Adding a new "stage" -- the 6th -- to the death & dying process (which applies to survivors as well) (with apologies to Elizabeth Kübler-Ross):

    Don't stop 'til you get enough (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • I guess you go through some Kübler-Ross steps and eventually accept that your kid isn't Mozart or Carl Gauss.

    Joe The Nerd Ferraro: What Is Transitional First and Why Do We Need It? Joe The Nerd Ferraro 2011

  • Elisabeth Kübler-RossThat lesson is hard but true and transformative.

    Blessings 2009

  • Remix of the Addams Family Theme by Pitbull; score by Danny Elfman, costumes by Colleen Atwood, blerg-de-bler-de-bler.

    Tim Burton To Bring Us New Addams Family Film in 3D Stop Motion Animation (UPDATED) | /Film 2010

  • Elisabeth Kübler-RossThat lesson is hard but true and transformative.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • No sooner had I successfully navigated in respect of Sunny the five stages of the grieving process per Elisabeth Kübler-Ross than news of the death from cancer on Christmas Day of Eartha Kitt appeared in the New York Times.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Having since then successfully navigated all five stages of the grieving process per Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, I now find myself in the living hell of shopping for a new computer.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Plus, after marching through the Kübler-Ross stages of bad-review grief from "future generations will recognize my genius!" to "they're just jealous!" to sulky acceptance, we can console ourselves with the belief that professional critics bring to their work some instinctual empathy for the artists under review -- an understanding of the passion and elbow grease that go into any sustained work of creativity, no matter the quality of the final product.

    Ben H. Winters: Why I Give Everything Five Stars Ben H. Winters 2011

  • Having since then successfully navigated all five stages of the grieving process per Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, I now find myself in the living hell of shopping for a new computer.

    R.I.P. 2009

  • I suppose you could run these reactions from the right wing through the Kübler-Ross grief cycle and that they are at the active stage of the anger stage, but I think it ultimately comes down to denial and the inability to come to terms with the fact that they lost and that the majority of the voters in the country rejected them and their ideas.

    Keeping Up with the Wingnuts 2009

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