Grief’s Five Stages Explain Post-Quake Japan
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March 12 (Bloomberg) -- The second anniversary of Japan’smonstrous earthquake has me thinking about Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross.
The five stages of grief outlined in her 1969 book, “OnDeath and Dying,” aptly capture where the collective Japanesepsyche has journeyed, and where it hasn’t, in the 24 monthssince a 9-magnitude quake and giant tsunami forever changed therelationship between nature and the nuclear reactors in thenation’s midst.