Suicide as Bereavement: Applicability of Kubler-Ross’s Stages of Dying to the Suicidal Individual

This article presents evidence that people contemplating suicide experience the same psychological stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance that people dying from other causes (such as terminal diseases) experience. A summary of Kubler-RossÕ (1969) model of these stages is presented. (7 refs) (SC)