Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.



Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926–August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model.

 In this work, she proposed the now-famous Five Stages of Grief™ as a changing pattern. These five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages have since been adopted into The Kübler-Ross Change Curve™ by many corporations to train employees in change and loss. 

In 1970, she delivered the Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at the University of Harvard, on the theme, On Death and Dying. During the 1970s and 1980s, she helped start over 50 hospices around the world. In 1985 she created the world’s first prison hospice in Vacaville, California. She is a 2007 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. 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.

 Elisabeth retired in 1994 after an arsonist burnt her house down. She had been trying to start an AIDS hospice for abandoned babies. She spent the last nine years of her life living in Arizona near her son Kenneth Ross. During these last years, she wrote four more books, “On Grief and Grieving.” She died in August 2004 at an assisted living center in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the author of 24 books in 41 languages. In 2005, her son Ken Ross started the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, which continues her legacy in a dozen countries.Books and E-books are available from your favourite independent bookstores, retailers, B&N.com, iTunes, and Amazon.com - You may also order them from the publishers directly.

  • Questions & Answers on Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1972 - Purchase on Amazon
  • Death: The Final Stage of Growth, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1974
  • To Live Until We Say Goodbye, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1978
  • The Dougy Letter - A Letter to a Dying Child, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press) 1979
  • Living With Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1981
  • Remember The Secret, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press), 1981
  • Working It Through, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1982
  • AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge, (Simon & Schuster), 1988
  • Learn to Die, Learn to Live ("Sterben learnen, Leben lernen" German only - Silberschnur), 1992
  • Every Ending is a Bright Beginning (Jedes Ende ist ein strahlender Beginn") German only - Silberschnur, 1992
  • Live in Love: When the Soul leaves the Body ("In Liebe leben: Wenn die Seele den Körper verlässt" - German only - Silberschnur), 1994
  • Death is of Vital Importance- (also known as "Making the Most of the In-between") (Out of Print in English - Now "The Tunnel and the Light"), 1995
  • Unfolding the Wings of Love ("Der Liebe Flügel entfalten" Germany only - Silberschnur), 1996
  • AIDS & Love, The Conference in Barcelona, (Spain) 1996
  • Longing to Go Back Home ("Sehnsucht nach Hause" - Germany only - Silberschnur), 1997
  • The Wheel of Life (Simon & Schuster/Scribner), 1997
  • Why Are We Here ("Warum sind hier sind" - Germany only - Silberschnur), 1999
  • Real Taste of Life: A photographic Journal, 2003
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