The Kübler Ross model is suaually applied to people with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss. There are 5 stages:
Denial—"I feel fine."; "This can't be happening, not to me."
Anger—"Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"
Bargaining—"Just let me live to see my children graduate."; "I'll do anything for a few more years."; "I will give my life savings if..."
Depression—"I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die... What's the point?"; "I miss my loved one, why go on?"
Acceptance—"It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."
...but thinking about it, it seems it can also be applied to other kinds of tragedy:
1. Denial: i haven't done anything, i bought the hardware, i can do whatever i want with it, i didn't do it, i did it before and nothing happened.
2. Anger: singing an angry rap song
3. Bargaining: Give me your money guys and i will defeat the evil corporate bully
4. ...
5. ...
obviously the case at hand has reached the bargaining stage, i will continue to observe.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
