TY - JOUR T1 - A grieving process illustrated? JF - Medical Humanities JO - J Med Humanit DO - 10.1136/medhum-2016-010874 SP - medhum-2016-010874 AU - Rory Hutchinson Y1 - 2016/06/10 UR - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/23/medhum-2016-010874.abstract N2 - The sudden death of Pablo Picasso's closest friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901 came as a great shock to the young Picasso. From a young age, Picasso had ruminated on life and death; however, this was his first experience of bereavement. Following the death of Casagemas, Picasso's paintings can be seen as a diary of his grieving process and clearly illustrate the five stages of the grieving process as outlined by Kubler-Ross in ‘On Death and Dying’ (1969). ER -