Nick Cave on the stages of grief: “Grief, like love, is a mess”

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Nick Cave has shared his views on the stages of grief and how it is bullshit and shared that the process is a mess similar to love.After being asked if he believes in “acceptance” as the final stage of grief according to the Kübler-Ross model in an interview with Rolling Stone, Cave responded: “In my experience, the Kübler-Ross model of the stages of grief is full of shit.

Grief portioned into orderly stages does not make sense, on any level.”He continued: “Grief, like love, is a mess. Grief manifests as awesome and Godlike.

It was not about “acceptance,” which suggests a kind of ultimate returning to business as usual, rather it is an obliterating force that requires a kind of transmutation of being, where we turn from one thing into another thing.

The experience of losing my two sons was a reordering of one’s essential being. Ultimately, if we are lucky, we stop focusing on our own wounds and look to the wounds of the world.”A post shared by Nick Cave (@nickcaveofficial)The Bad Seeds frontman is no stranger to grief.