My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
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There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
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Birth: | 8th July, 1926 |
Death: | 24th August, 2004 |
Nationality: | American, Swiss |
Profession: | Psychiatrist |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was born in Zürich, Switzerland. She was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees and by July 1982 had taught, in her estimation, 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1970, she delivered The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at Harvard University, on the theme, On Death and Dying. She graduated from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957.
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