Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon.... It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The Wheel of Life
Topic: Life Beyond Death & the Spirit World
“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is no different from taking off a suit of clothes one no longer needs. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)
Humanism, Arts and Sciences
Life Lessons
Kübler-Ross Elisabeth, and David Kessler. Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us about Life and Living. Simon & Schuster, 2014. [Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Life Lessons, 2000].
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying(1969), where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. In this work she proposed the now famous Five Stages of Grief as a pattern of adjustment. These five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In general, individuals experience most of these stages, though in no defined sequence, after being faced with the reality of their impending death. The five stages have since been adopted by many as applying to the survivors of a loved one’s death, as well.She is a 2007 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees and by July 1982 had taught, in her estimation, 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1970, she delivered the The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at the University of Harvard, on the theme, On Death and Dying.
The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation
The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation is 501(c)(3) volunteer-based organization inspired by the life of psychiatrist, humanitarian and hospice pioneer, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Though Elisabeth is often described as the “death and dying lady” or the “creator of the Five Stages” she often referred to herself as the “life and living lady”. It is in the spirit of embracing all of life, which includes death, that we further the mission and vision of Elisabeth through the work of the Foundation that bears her name.
On Death and Dying
“The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one(s) we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.”
–Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross [about The Five Stages of Grief].
Additional Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotations
“When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.”
–Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross [The Wheel of Life (1997)].
“I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”
–Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
“Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.”
–Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross [On Children and Death (1985)].
“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.”
–Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross [Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975)].
“For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.”
–Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross [Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975)].