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Elisabeth began teaching seminars and giving lectures on how to work with terminally ill patients and how to speak with them about death in a way that could ease any anxiety or worry. Her work became so popular that she was featured in Life magazine in 1969.
After conducting many interviews with terminally ill people and lots of research, Elisabeth wrote her revolutionary book, On Death and Dying, that year. The text outlined the five stages most dying people experience – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
It’s a model that has been used as a training method for healthcare employees and has helped so many people understand the process of death.
Throughout the rest of her career, Elisabeth wrote over 20 books relating to death and psychology. In the 1970s, she started advocating for hospice care and was significant in establishing hospice care programs nationwide. She co-founded the American Holistic Medical Association and built Shanti Nilaya, an educational healing center in California, in 1977.
In the 1980s, during the AIDS crisis, Elisabeth worked with AIDS patients and conducted workshops for them in different parts of the world. In the mid-1980s, she developed the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center, which was relocated to a farm in Virginia.
In 1995, Elisabeth moved to Arizona, where she retired after suffering a series of strokes that left her paralyzed on her left side. She moved into a hospice program in 2002 and passed away due to natural causes in August 2004 at 78.
As one of the first individuals to pour so much work, dedication, and love into caring for terminally ill patients, Elisabeth truly had a tremendous impact on how we approach death in this world. Her legacy lives on as people live by her methods to this day.
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