Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s posited that there are five stages of grief: denial, bargaining, anger, depression and acceptance. One of the things that I find most interesting about this idea is not the specific states or even their relevance to dying, but the idea that we are experience emotional response in a set of transitional phases. The question I hope to raise with this piece deals with how these states overlap and are experienced simultaneously, reflecting the multiplicity of emotion rather than the easily identified and categorized state.