Sandy knows she is going to die in a few months. she seems calm and concerned more about how to her family deal with her death than with her own mortality. she seems to be disconnecting herself from people and things and at peace. sandy is most likely in the stage of dying.

Sandy is most likely in the "acceptance" stage of dying.


In acceptance stage of dying, the person who is dying builds up a feeling of peace; an acknowledgment of one's destiny; and, much of the time, a craving to be allowed to sit unbothered. In this stage, emotions and physical agony might be for all intents and purposes missing. Kübler-Ross sees this phase as the finish of the diminishing battle, the last resting stage before death.

The one that most represents the earths mantle would be the skin since the mantle is the upper part of the earths depths which is just like the skin of an apple.