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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
said
People are like stained-glass windows.
— As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies (1926-2004)
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- Fame56.7
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- Doctors rank#138
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Lived 1926–2004, aged 78United States
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Updated 2026-06-10
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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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 impo…
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
— As quoted in "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11, November-December 1976, pp. 18-20
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
— Ch. 2
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
— Ch. 6
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts.
— Ch. 2
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