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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies (1926-2004) · United States · Doctors · Died at 78

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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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A life in dates

2007National Women's Hall of FameAward2004Died24 August 20042003“People are like stained-glass windows.”In their wordsAs quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84

1977Ladies' Home Journal Women of the YearAward1976“Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”In their wordsDecember 1976As quoted in "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11, November-December 1976, pp. 18-20

Honorary Doctor of the University of MiamiAward1975“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.”In their wordsCh. 2

“Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.”In their wordsCh. 6

1969“There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts.”In their wordsCh. 2

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”In their wordsCh. 9

1926Born8 July 1926

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8 statements, newest first

  1. People are like stained-glass windows.

    2003, As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84, Own words

  2. Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

    Dec 1976, As quoted in "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11, November-December 1976, pp. 18-20, Own words

  3. 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.

    1975, Ch. 2, Own words

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Awards

National Women's Hall of Fame2007
Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year1977
Honorary Doctor of the University of Miami1976

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Child: Ken Ross

About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1926 to 2004 · aged 78

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