Death

The Final Stage

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780684839417
• eBook ISBN: 9781439125175
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Emotions in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

From the author of the groundbreaking work On Death and Dying comes an exploration on why discussing death is considered taboo and how normalizing that discussion can enrich our lives. Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning. So why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death?Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors.Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface A Journey into the Realm of Death and Growth
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Why Is It So Hard to Die
• 3 Death through Some Other Windows
• SUGGESTED READINGS
• 4 Dying Is Easy but Living Is Hard
• 5 Death and Growth Unlikely Partners
• 6 Death The Final Stage of Growth
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Omega
• Resources
• Index