The "stages" of grief that you may have heard of have gotten a bad reputation because there was a misunderstanding that the proposal was that those are the only stages and that they are definitively experienced in that order. Instead, stages are framework for expecting the kinds of reactions one might have to grief. In addition, there is a relatively straightforward behavioral explanation of grief as the reminders and routines around the lost person or experience, which elicit emotions of sadness until they are rewritten.

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