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#Quotes #Hospice #OnDeathAndDying #KublerRoss

"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within."
"Watching a peaceful death of a human being
reminds us of a falling star;
one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a
brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926-2004 She is responsible for Hospice as we know it today.

I recently wrote an article mapping climate grief/anxiety on to the Kubler-Ross stages of grief.* It wasn't difficult. I wish it had been less easy. I also wish that when you read it, you come away with more hope than you had before you encountered it.

https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/the-seven-stages-of-climate-grief/

#ClimatGrief #ClimateAnxiety #KublerRoss #Hope #Hopepunk #action #protest

*the exact number is contested these days but the majority of other articles on the topic cite seven, so that is what I went with

@szbalint The situation in Chernobyl was instrumentation which literally could not register the actual scale of the catastrophe. Radiation meters read to the maximum scale, a thousand times below actual levels

The case I'm reporting here is ... different. It's one of seeing or admitting only one element of a situation, but not the inevitable implications of the whole scene. It's an aspect of what I've been calling #manifestation --- seeing only at the shallowest topical levels, not looking deeper or drawing connections.

It's also related to #denial, and probably #grief, which seem to be general responses to #WorldviewInvalidation --- having one's core belief systems invalidated. (Look up the initial Stages of Grief #KublerRoss work, it relates. I've seen similar descriptions of #authoritarian responses.) Mind, "not great, not terrible" expresses this, though coming through a diffrent door. The end result is the same: denying reality.

See related, the North Dakota nurse reporting on patients whose dying words are denial that the thing killing them is in fact COVID-19. Or the Utah health commissioner, sending overflow patients to Washington state, insisting that they have some other condition.

Denial is a formidable force.