# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisabeth-kubler-ross
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:04:32.410Z

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description: "She gave grief a vocabulary. Five stages—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance—that became the framework through which millions learned to name what happens when loss arrives. A psychiatrist who made death a subject you could study instead of only fear."
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deathDate: "2004-08-24"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Switzerland on July 8, 1926, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross trained as a psychiatrist and turned her attention to what medicine preferred to ignore: the dying and their families. In 1969 she published "On Death and Dying", codifying the five stages of grief that would become the Kübler-Ross model. By 1970 she was delivering the Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard; by July 1982 she had taught 125,000 students across colleges, seminaries, medical schools, and hospitals. The New York Public Library named her book one of the "Books of the Century" in 1999, and Time listed her among the century's most important thinkers. She collected over a hundred awards and twenty honorary degrees before her death on August 24, 2004. Her archives now live at Stanford's Green Library, open for study.