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    TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD BYE
    TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD BYE
    TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD BYE
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    TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD BYE

    By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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    This exploration of counseling work with terminal patients visually outlines how Dr. Kübler-Ross, world-renowned psychiatrist and authority on death, helps her patients come to terms with death.

    Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, whose books on death and dying have sold in the millions, now offers an extraordinary visual record of her work.

    Through the brilliant photographs of Mal Warshaw, To Live Until We Say Good-Bye gives a gripping, intimate view of Dr. Kübler-Ross's counseling work with terminally ill patients as she brings them to an acceptance of death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribner
    Release dateAug 2, 2011
    ISBN9781451664478
    TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD BYE
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, (1926–2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, humanitarian, and co-founder of the hospice movement around the world. She was also the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, which first discussed the five stages of grief. Elisabeth authored twenty-four books in thirty-six languages and brought comfort to millions of people coping with their own deaths or the death of a loved one. Her greatest professional legacy includes teaching the practice of humane care for the dying and the importance of sharing unconditional love. Her work continues by the efforts of hundreds of organizations around the world, including The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation.

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      TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD BYE - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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      The work which I have done over the last two decades started many years ago, preceding my academic career in the United States. It originated in Poland when I was privileged to do relief work in postwar Europe and came across the concentration camp of Maidanek, where hundreds and thousands of people were killed and where I saw the gas chambers and the trainloads of baby shoes of the murdered children. It was in this environment that I came across the little scribbles and drawings which children had done on the inside of the barrack walls. They often included messages to their mommies and daddies. There were also symbols of butterflies scratched into the wooden barrack walls, drawn with a piece of chalk or a rock, or sometimes scratched with a fingernail. It was in those days that I began to wonder about what we are doing to our fellowman and how it is possible that a single generation develops both a Hitler, a man bent on destroying the world, and a Mother Theresa, who gave totally of herself to help those dying in the streets of India. The question that emerged in my young mind was: What can an individual human being contribute in the raising of the next generation to prevent more Hitlers, to create a generation with more genuine love and less destructive

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