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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief

Published: June 15, 2020, 11 a.m.

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. When Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth K\xfcbler-Ross published her bestselling book On Death and Dying in 1969, she described a series of emotional stages that she had seen terminally ill patients experience \u2013 later known as the Five Stages of Grief. But there was much more to her work in end of life care. Her son Ken speaks to Lucy Burns.

Photo: Dr. Elizabeth K\xfcbler-Ross, Virginia Farm, 1987. Photo courtesy of Ken Ross www.ekrfoundation.org