According to Elisabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler, there are five stages of grief. "The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief." When my father passed away I was not in denial. The night he died I whispered something to his ear. It was his final moments. I knew it was what he wanted. He missed my mother so much. My mother left the world quite early. He did not remarry. He was a happy widower but he waited for his sundown after a year that my mother died. So, I whispered to his ear. "Pa, go to Mama, hurry home, and don't worry about me, I will be okay..." I was at the last stage of grief already which is acceptance. On his funeral rites, I sat on a chair with my head down. Then, I felt that tears welled in my eye
