Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 - August 24, 2004) was a psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kubler-Ross model.
Kubler-Ross was born in Zurich, Switzerland and graduated from the University of Zurich medical school in 1957. She moved to the United States in 1958 to work and continue her studies in New York.
As she began her practice, she was appalled by the hospital treatment of patients who were dying. She began giving a series of lectures featuring terminally ill patients. That led to On Death and Dying in 1969. She wrote over 20 additional books on the subject of dying.
She did not found the hospice movement, but its adherents credit her with encouraging it.
Kubler-Ross completed her degree in psychiatry at the University of Colorado in 1963 and has also received more than 20 honorary doctorates. Kubler-Ross suffered a series of strokes in 1995 which left her partially paralyzed on her left side. In a 2002 interview with The Arizona Republic, she stated that she was ready for death. She died in 2004 at her home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Selected Bibliography
- On Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1969
- Questions & Answers on Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1972
- Death: The Final Stage of Growth, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),74
- To Live Until We Say Goodbye, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1978
- The Doughy Letter -A Letter to a Dying Child, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press) 1979 Quest, *Biography of EKR (Written with Derek Gill), Harper & Row, 1980
- Working It Through, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981
- Living With Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981
- Remember The Secret, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press)1981
- On Children & Death, (Simon & Schuster)1985
- AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge, (Simon & Schuster)1988
- On Life After Death, (Celestial Arts)
- Death is of Vital Importance, (Out of Print- Now "The Tunnel and the Light") 1995 Unfolding *The Wings of Love, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1996
- Making the Most of the Inbetween, (Various Foreign) 1996
- Aids & Love, The Conference in Barcelona, (Spain) 1996
- Longing to Go Back Home, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1997
- The Wheel of Life, (Simon & Schuster/Scribner),1997
- Why Are We Here, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1999
- The Tunnel and the Light, (Avalon), 1999
- Life lessons, (With David Kessler), 2001
- Real Taste of Life: A photographic Journal
