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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...
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...
There are worse problems than hope. For years, in any of the mostly gay neighborhoods around the U.S., it was common to run across old friends turned stick figures, men carved to the bone by illness. Thirty-year-olds studied the writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychologist who identified the stages in which the dying accept their fate and dryly marked their own progress, good schoolboys acing their last assignment. And everyone had a story about ashes. You heard about Dale, whose ashes blew back into everyone's face because the wind was coming ashore that...
...people who will be fired? David Noer, author of a book on the psychological effects of layoffs, traces stages of reaction strikingly similar to those discovered by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in people awaiting their death: denial, anger, bargaining ("Can I get a better package?"), depression and finally acceptance. Better get used to those stages, he says: in today's business climate, "we are all temps...