Opening monologue: Meredith Grey
According to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, when we are dying or have
suffered a catastrophic loss, we move through five distinct
stages of grief.
We go into denial.
Because the loss is so unthinkable.
We can't imagine it's true.
We become angry with everyone.
Angry with survivors, angry with ourselves.
Then we bargain.
We beg, we plead, we offer everything we have,
we offer up our souls in exchange for just one more day.
When the bargaining has failed and the anger is just too
hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair.
Until finally we have to accept that we have done
everything we can.
We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.
Closing monologue: Meredith Grey
In medical school we have a hundred classes that teach
us how to fight off death.
And not one lesson in how to go on living.
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