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Elisabeth Kbler-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 Kbler-Ross model..

"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on life
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"We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering."

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"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on silence
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"There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning."

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"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on bereavement
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"Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means."

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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on death
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on death
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