Grey's Anatomy, season 6

[voiceover] According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, when we are dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We go into denial because the loss is so unthinkable we can't imagine it's true. We become angry with everyone, angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain. We beg. We plead. We offer everything we have, we offer up our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair, until finally we have to accept that we have done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.

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Meredith: He wrote in my hand Lexie, Bailey, Hunt, Cristina, Shepherd, Sloan, Callie, Webber: What do you mean he wrote in your hand? Meredith: He just grabbed my hand, and he squeezed it and he wrote with his finger. Derek: He wrote with his finger? Meredith: You know in my hand, he wrote 007. Bailey: [grabs Meredith's hand and proceeds to write on it using her finger] Okay, what did I write? Meredith: Joe? Bailey: N! I did not write JOE! Cristina: Are you serious! Webber: You mean this might not be O'Malley? Mark: This is funny. Webber: Did anybody try to phone O'Malleyf? Can we get him on the phone? Meredith: I'm telling you he squeezed my hand. Bailey: [hushes Meredith] Shut it! You don't get to talk anymore! You don't get to talk ever again! Meredith: I could have sworn it was George.

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Meredith: We're newlyweds! Izzie: A post-it wedding does not make you newlyweds!

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[voiceover] In medical school, we have a hundred lessons that teach us how to fight off death, and not one lesson on how to go on living.

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[voiceover] The dictionary defines grief as keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. As surgeons, as scientists, we're taught to learn from and rely on books, on definitions, on definitives. But in life, strict definitions rarely apply. In life, grief can look like a lot of things that bear little resemblance to sharp sorrow.

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Arizona: McDreamy. Derek: I'm sorry? Arizona: I get it now the whole, you know, "McDreamy" thing. I didn't, I didn't get it before. But now I get it. You know they call you that, right? [Alex rolls his eyes] Derek: [smiles] Yes. Arizona: I'm involved, by the way, in case you thought that I was just coming on to you, because I was not. Plus I heard that you got married so congratulations. Derek: Yes, thank you. Alex: [snickers] You wrote some hokey crap on a in the residents' lounge. Sorry, but until you're sweating it out in a with a ball of white taffeta coming at you, you're not really married. Derek: [chuckles] Oh, I've consummated mine. I consummate mine all the time. How's that going for you, Karev? Girls talk. You might want to consider that the next time you judge my post-it.

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