Word: kubler
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has delineated five stages of reaction to death, from denial to acceptance, but in America there is a sixth: litigation. Just days after the Columbine shootings, the father of Isaiah Shoels, a slain 18-year-old, made a call to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, famous for defending Jack Kevorkian, about representing his family. No suits have been filed yet, and Colorado bars lawyers from soliciting clients for 30 days after an incident. But it is probable that a wave of lawsuits is coming from the victims' families and from those injured in the shootings. What is less certain...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS...
...went on to campaign for hospice care in the U.S., gave countless "life, death and transition" workshops around the world and tried to help babies with AIDS. Her current infatuation with mysticism and the afterlife distresses some in the psychiatric community. Even so, though hobbled by several strokes, Kubler-Ross, at 72, remains a powerful voice for the terminally ill and their loved ones...
...Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross publishes On Death and Dying...
After his father's death, Soros read Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's seminal books on dying and realized that it is a defining moment in one's own life. As a result, he approached his mother's death very differently. She died quietly at home, surrounded by her family. "She was a believer, and she actually saw the gates of heaven. It was a very touching thing. I was holding her hand, and she described it to me. She got very worried. She didn't want to take me with her. Very touching. I said, 'Don't worry, my feet...