Place the Kübler-Ross stages of dying in the appropriate order
a. Bargaining
b. Acceptance
c. Anger
d. Denial
e. Depression
D, C, A, E, B
Kübler-Ross outlines the stages of acceptance of death as: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
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