Inspirational Quotations by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (American Psychiatrist)

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist. An innovator in the field of palliative care and near-death studies, she revolutionized attitudes toward the treatment of the terminally ill. An early and important contributor to the death awareness movement, she is well known for her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the “Kübler-Ross Model.”

Born in Zurich, Kübler-Ross was one of a set of triplets. She studied medicine at the university there and immigrated to America in 1958. During her psychiatric residency, she began giving a series of lectures inspiring medical students on managing terminally ill patients.

An instructor at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, Her extensive work with the dying led to the book On Death and Dying (1969.) It examined the process of dying, identifying five stages of emotion: denial, anger, bargaining with God, preparatory grief/depression and acceptance.

Kübler-Ross is credited with facilitating the emerging hospice movement of the 1960s. She held controversial views on the afterlife, which dented her reputation in the 1980s. Other works include Living with Death and Dying (1981,) On Life after Death (1991,) and her autobiography, Wheel of Life (1997.)

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