Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004)
Author of On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families
About the Author
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a psychiatrist with a particular interest in end-of-life care. Especially interested in the care of dying patients, she researched their attitudes to death.
Works by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families (1969) 3,515 copies, 33 reviews
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss (2005) 628 copies, 20 reviews
Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living (2000) 442 copies, 10 reviews
On Death & Dying; Questions & Answers on Death & Dying; On Life & Death (3 Books in 1) (1992) 4 copies
Viva Agora e Alem da Morte: Reflexoes da Medica Psiquiatra Que Mudou a Percepcao Sobre a Morte (2016) 3 copies
La muerte: un amanecer (Biblioteca Elisabeth Kübler-Ross) (Spanish Edition) (2021) 2 copies, 1 review
Is There Life After Death? 1 copy
Hospice 1 copy
Dem Tod ins Gesicht sehen 1 copy
Associated Works
Life after Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon, Survival of Bodily Death (1975) — Foreword, some editions — 1,368 copies, 23 reviews
The Future of God: Personal Adventures in Spirituality With Thirteen of Today's Eminent Thinkers (1996) — Contributor — 25 copies
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- Canonical name
- Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Legal name
- Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Birthdate
- 1926-07-08
- Date of death
- 2004-08-24
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Switzerland (birth)
- Birthplace
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Place of death
- Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Places of residence
- Zurich, Switzerland (birth)
USA (from 1958) - Education
- University of Zurich Medical School, Switzerland ( [1957])
University of Colorado ( [1963]) - Occupations
- writer
author
psychiatrist
physician - Awards and honors
- National Women's Hall of Fame (2007)
Twenty honorary degrees from various institutions around the world. - Short biography
- Elisabeth Kübler was born one of identical triplets. She wanted to become a physician and worked as a hospital volunteer during World War II. She graduated from the University of Zurich in 1957. In 1958, she married Emanuel "Manny" Ross, a fellow medical student from the USA, and the couple moved to America, where she remained the rest of her life. Dr.
Kübler-Ross established herself in psychiatric practice, and was later appointed assistant professor at the University of Chicago Medical School. Her treatment of terminally ill patients, as well as her dismay over the lack of courses addressing death and dying in medical schools, led her to conduct research that became her famous work, On Death and Dying (1969). Her Kübler-Ross model, also known as The Five Stages of Loss, was widely accepted and revolutionized how the medical professions take care of the terminally ill today.
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Death: the final stage of growth (Human Development… by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning. Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death? Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors. Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence. Source: Publisher… (more)
This is a great book--maybe a 5*--I seem to have lost track of how I rate my books. It's totally subjective for me anyway.
Her writing reminds me of My Double Life by Hamerstrom--strong women of the same era who pursue an interest in nature despite social expectations, women who write forthrightly.
Much of her life is so inspiring--& it's not just because I have some Swiss heritage! All I knew of her was that she did the 5 stages of dying/grief. So important to see this bit within the context of her life and value system. She was full of love for those in need, not afraid of hard work, and was intuitive about how to meet the needs of her patients. She includes many interesting tales of different patients she had, and what she learned from them. I was surprised to read of her interest in spirits, but then felt that the ending was such an abrupt change in direction. Of course, she did suffer several strokes, and have to move under the care of her son. And I can't really expect her autobio to include her thoughts up to the moment of her death (well, given her belief in life after death, she could have contacted someone to add in the ending).
Some good lessons: Live every day to the fullest. Learn how to discern and discriminate. We are here on Earth to learn a lesson and we won't die until we get it.
I'm not sure if I agree on her stance against assisted death. I really don't want to think of lingering on in severe pain, or as a vegetable--even after reading Kubler-Ross's chapter on her mother's vegetative state. But I have always intuitively felt that leaving this life early does consign you to doing it all again, only harder.
2012 review… (more)
Her writing reminds me of My Double Life by Hamerstrom--strong women of the same era who pursue an interest in nature despite social expectations, women who write forthrightly.
Much of her life is so inspiring--& it's not just because I have some Swiss heritage! All I knew of her was that she did the 5 stages of dying/grief. So important to see this bit within the context of her life and value system. She was full of love for those in need, not afraid of hard work, and was intuitive about how to meet the needs of her patients. She includes many interesting tales of different patients she had, and what she learned from them. I was surprised to read of her interest in spirits, but then felt that the ending was such an abrupt change in direction. Of course, she did suffer several strokes, and have to move under the care of her son. And I can't really expect her autobio to include her thoughts up to the moment of her death (well, given her belief in life after death, she could have contacted someone to add in the ending).
Some good lessons: Live every day to the fullest. Learn how to discern and discriminate. We are here on Earth to learn a lesson and we won't die until we get it.
I'm not sure if I agree on her stance against assisted death. I really don't want to think of lingering on in severe pain, or as a vegetable--even after reading Kubler-Ross's chapter on her mother's vegetative state. But I have always intuitively felt that leaving this life early does consign you to doing it all again, only harder.
2012 review… (more)
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