A terminally ill client's husband tells the nurse assistant, "I wish we had taken that vacation to Europe last year. We just kept puttingoff, and now I'm furious that we didn't go." The nurse assistant interprets the husband's statement as indicating which of the following stages of adaptation to dying?

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The client's husband is experiencing anger, much of which stems from feelings of guilt about not taking the vacation. During the stage of denial, the husband is more likely to deny the client's diagnosis and prognosis. During the stage of bargaining, the husband would offer to do certain things in exchange for more time before the client dies. In the stage of depression, the husband is likely to make few or no comments and to act dejected.

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