Who is Elisabeth Kubler-ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".Kübler-Ross was a 2007 inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame, was named by Time as one of the "100 Most Important Thinkers" of the 20th century and was the recipient of nineteen honorary degrees. By July 1982, Kübler-Ross taught 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1970, she delivered an Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University on the theme On Death and Dying.Early life...
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- People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
- I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
- Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
- It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
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Isakunda: you will be whole again but you will never be the same. nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” ~ elisabeth kubler-ross and david kesslerAdamsturch1: "the ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well." - elisabeth kubler-ross
Heir_jordans: this message is for you… yea you looking at this post. keep fighting. • the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. -elisabeth kubler-ross • god is my way.
Kdhart3000: should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. --elisabeth kubler-ross
Kdhart3000: the opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. --elisabeth kubler-ross
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