A psychiatrist who did not experience the five stages of Death and dying

"The process of dying cannot be adequately understood by applying a rigid phenomenological framework that does not do justice to the resource of biblical faith and the contribution that faith makes to the acceptance of death."

     Orville S. Walters, "A psychiatrist's approach to death," Christian Medical Society journal 6 (Fall 1975):  4-6, which is, presumably, the source of the INPM version online.  Walters composed this little essay in the final throes of stomach cancer.  He died on 18 February 1975.

Kübler-Ross’s "Death and Dying takes little notice of the resources of Christian faith for the dying."  For this reason "It is difficult to imagine the writer of these words working through anxiety over approaching death in the troubled stages currently associated with dying."