{"id":402,"date":"2005-01-11T05:53:59","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T11:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=402"},"modified":"2005-01-11T05:53:59","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T11:53:59","slug":"review-on-death-and-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/01\/11\/review-on-death-and-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: On Death and Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not my usual fare.<br \/>\nI finished <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet&amp;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2F0684839385%2Fqid%3D1103640837%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dpd_csp_1%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Dbooks%26n%3D507846\">On Death and Dying<\/a> by Dr. Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross last night.  It is NOT my usual fare, nor am I dying.  But, with the divorce, a part of my life is dying so my father suggested that I might find some benefit from reading it.  And, since my father was involved with some of the base research for the book, I gave it a go.  It was, at times, quite hard to read.  Not because it was a bad book by any means, but because I&#8217;m just too keyed up to read much non-fiction.  In fact, it was helpful and would be very helpful to someone dealing with an actual death.  It details, among other things, the five stages of death and dying, or grief, namely; denial, anger, bargaining, sadness and acceptance.  They&#8217;re not always followed in strict order and the tend to overlap quite a bit, but sooner or later, we all go through those five stages.  (Personally, I&#8217;m in the anger stage, but I&#8217;m trying to get past that now.)<\/p>\n<p>So, all in all, not a bad book, but not a good choice for me right now, either.<br \/>\nYou can see more of what I&#8217;ve been up to while making myself read this book at my other blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryumaou.com\/hoffman\/netgeek\/index.php\">Diary of a Network Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my usual fare. I finished On Death and Dying by Dr. Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross last night. It is NOT my usual fare, nor am I dying. But, with the divorce, a part of my life is dying so my father suggested that I might find some benefit from reading it. And, since my father was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,24],"tags":[552],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","category-personal","category-things-to-read","tag-elisabeth-kubler-ross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}