Grief is a normal reaction to loss. It's the emotive misery you feel when a person you adore is taken away. The more important the loss, the more extreme the anguish will be. Lamenting is an individual and exceptionally personal experience. How you lament relies on upon numerous elements, including your identity and adapting style, your background, your belief, and the way of the loss. Presumably the most well-known definition of the phases of grief was created by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in her book "On Death and Dying". This paper is going to explain the five stages of grief, how Wolterstorff find Joy after his loss, meaning and significance of death in light of the Christian narrative and also explained how hope of the resurrection plays a role in comforting Wolterstorff. …show more content…
This awful misfortune and agony made Wolterstorff go into a "mourn" for his child. He experiences the five phases of grief projected by Kubler-Ross with a specific end goal to accept his misfortune (The 5 Stages of Loss and Grief. (n.d).). Writing straightforwardly around a heartbreaking occasion can be hard for any individual who lost somebody, particularly for a guardian who lost his child. It is very easy to identify the denial stage, because at first Wolterstorff states that his child is still alive. He was searching for his child wherever he went. The anger, bargaining, and depression are appeared through the conduct of Wolterstorff. Wolterstorff is angry at his child for hiking on that day, and not moving with others. He is irate at God for taking away his child. Wolterstorff tries all that he can to recover his child, for example, haggling with God. He is discouraged that his child is no more. He at long last acknowledges his child's demise when he discovers importance in Christian enduring and sees passing in the light of the revival of Jesus Christ (Wolterstorff,