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Grief does not move through tidy stages. In a study of bereaved people, acceptance was the commonest response from the first month, and yearning, not anger, was the hardest feeling.

Paul Maciejewski and colleagues, 2007 · Yale study of 233 bereaved people, published in JAMA

An Empirical Examination of the Stage Theory of Grief, JAMA 297(7), 716-723

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Paul Maciejewski and colleagues: Grief does not move through tidy stages. In a study of bereaved people, acceptance was the commonest response from the first month, and yearning, not anger, was the hardest feeling.