Patients lash out at doctors, nurses, and family. This stage signals a partial acceptance of imminent death. In this stage people desperately attempt to buy more time from doctors or from God. They seek an extension, hoping to live a little longer. This is a difficult period produced by sorrow over failures and disappointment over elusive goals.
People question the meaning of life.
Those in the last psychological stage live in quiet expectation of death. They come to grips with the inevitable. Shunning death We live in a culture that views death with fear. Before we learn what our response to death should be, we must understand what death is. Identifying death Death is harsh.