Psychiatrist Who Wrote Book On Dying Dies at 78
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › August 26, 2004
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who famously theorized in 1969 that terminally ill patients go through five stages of grief -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance -- died Tuesday at age 78 after her own prolonged bout with illness.
She was best known for her 1969 book "On Death and Dying," bringing the forbidden topic of terminal illness into the public discourse. She pioneered hospice care after working with dying hospital patients whose plight she considered intolerable.See the full content of this document
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