Elisabeth Kubler- Ross 1926-2004

Psychiatrist, Writer Changed the View of Death

By Joe Holley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 26, 2004; Page A01

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 78, a Swiss-born psychiatrist who taught the world how to speak openly about death and dying and whose best-selling book “On Death and Dying” provided a vocabulary for doing so, died Tuesday at her group home in Scottsdale, Ariz.

I admired Elisabeth. Ross’s work very much. Her book was very helpful to me when my favorite uncle and grandfather died within a year of each other and I was going through tremendous grief.

Since death WAS her work, I wonder if she looked at her own demise with a little more curiosity and with her researcher’s eye. I wonder if all of that made the experience different for her somehow.

Although I didn’t agree with all of her conclusions, I admired her work with the dying and her importance in the hospice movement. May she rest in peace.

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