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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Brazil/Brasil Class

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Conference, Stanford University, December 2, 2019

Karl Lorenz of the Palliative Care Dept. at Stanford University

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Hospice/Huis, Netherlands

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Brazil/Brasil

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation In India Feb, 2019

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Mexico Conference 2018

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (EKR) Foundation Guatemala

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Chile Fundraiser

Swiss EKR Street

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Place/Street- naming ceremony, Nieuwkoop, Netherlands - November 22, 2017

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross lecture/workshop - New Zealand

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross with Cardinal Cooke

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross at Arizona House, 2001, Editorial use only, No Tabs

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on Virginia Farm with pet Llamas, 1987, No tabs, Editorial use only

EKR Award

EKR + Louise

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Award - Children’s Hospice International

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Award/Certification

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Award, City of Dallas

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross with Jamie drawing

EKR + Louise

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross working in medical lab in Switzerland. Mis 1950's. Editorial usage only, No Tabloid Usage.

Wedding Photo, Emanuel Robert Ross, 1957, Switzerland

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Young doctor, in Switzerland, Mid 1950's

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross with family on Skiing Trip, Top Row Left to Right, Emma (Mother), Elisabeth, Eva, Erika, Ernst (Father), Brother Ernst on bottom, Editorial usage only, No tabs

from left to right, Eva, Erika, Elisabeth Kübler, Switzerland, Early 1942/3, editorial usage only, no tabloids

Kubler Sisters-1934

Eva, Erika, Elisabeth

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and triplet sisters, cica 1928

Bioethics journal

EKR and daughter Barbara

EKR Education Series 2021 Flyer

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EKR, Viktor Frankl, and his wife Eleonare

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EKR with her dog in Virginia

EKR with Mother Theresa

Elisabeth and Family in Long Island

Muhammad Ali Quote

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As originally outlined in Dr. Ross’ book On Death and Dying, the Five Stages insight helps us gain understanding and insight into the emotional and social experience of dying or the death of a loved one.

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The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation is looking f

The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation is looking for assistance in building online programming using a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Thinkific. Does anyone have experience at creating these such as a graphic designer, SEO specialist, copyrighted, video production, or other related areas to develop educational programming? We are looking to do this initially in English & Spanish followed by Portuguese and German. Please contact us! Direct messaging (DM) or at info@EKRFoundation.org
Thank you,
Ken Ross

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori Proverb

Lo que hacemos en esta vida se refleja en la etern

Lo que hacemos en esta vida se refleja en la eternidad.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity…

“I can assure you, the greatest rewards in your

“I can assure you, the greatest rewards in your whole life will come from opening your heart to those in need.” Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

NATIONAL GRIEF AWARENESS DAY - HISTORY Angie Cartw

NATIONAL GRIEF AWARENESS DAY - HISTORY
Angie Cartwright founded National Grief Awareness Day in 2014. Familiar with loss, Cartwright too became lost in grief. She has become dedicated to bringing support to those who have suffered like her and enlightening others to the realities of bereavement. Throughout the day, take stock of those in your life who have been affected by a form of loss. The death of a loved one, a close friend or enduring an extreme change in their lifestyle can trigger grief. When we lose the stability of shelter, a job or a routine we have known for years, we suffer a type of loss that requires closure. Some adjust to these changes easily, and others take time to become familiar with new routines.

“We’re all just walking each other home” Quo

“We’re all just walking each other home” Quote by Ram Dass. During the 1970’s and 1980’s Ram Dass and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross worked together. For a time they even explored opening up a center together to help improve the experience of dying in America. This is what Ram Dass had to say about Elisabeth “The hospice movement was just coming into being, thanks in large part to the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. A pioneer in near-death studies, she’d recently published her groundbreaking book On Death and Dying and was teaching around the country. She wanted to help people die well, …and working to create supportive environments for the dying. Elisabeth was among the first people to really talk openly about death in our society.” “She was fiery, a real get-up-and-go type who smoked cigarettes like a chimney” From his book, “Being Ram Dass”

“I’ve told my children that when I die, to rel

“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 — July 8, 1926-August 24, 2004

In Celebration of World Humanitarian Day today we

In Celebration of World Humanitarian Day today we share with you this photo of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross working in Belgium, from 1946 at the age of 19. Elisabeth left home as soon as World War II ended to join the International Voluntary Service to rebuild destroyed villages around Europe. She was known as the “Little Cook” a talent she had picked up from her mother. Shortly after this photo was taken she nearly died of third degree burns from a cooking pot that cracked open spilling boiling liquid onto her legs. As you can imagine there were no medical supplies at this time and place to tend to such an accident. Again she later had a near death experience from typhoid. After two years of service she ended up hiding on a box under vegetables in a British conveyor to make it through the Russian controlled areas of Germany to get back to Switzerland and enter medical school.

The uncertainty right now is here to teach you - E

The uncertainty right now is here to teach you - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation

While Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is largely known for

While Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is largely known for her 5 Stages model and her work in the hospice field, she actually made many other contributions to the field of palliative care. Elisabeth adapted the 4 Quadrants Model from her most influential teacher Karl Jung who she used to see walking down the streets of Zürich in her youth. Elisabeth felt that you could never treat a patient properly unless you addressed their emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual needs to balance the whole person. Please go to the Kübler-Ross channel on YouTube to view Elisabeth speaking about this in more detail.

Yesterday, EKR Foundation President Ken Ross met w

Yesterday, EKR Foundation President Ken Ross met with oncologist, Dr. Sara Jamil to discuss the palliative care situation in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistani Iraq. At the Hiwa Cancer Hospital doctors see an average of 50 patients a day. Severe overcrowding is the norm with patients waiting in every corner of the hospital from the hallways to the stairways. It takes up to a week for treatments that should be administered immediately and no pain medications are available because of government regulations. We will try to provide some palliative care training to these brave and dedicated doctors. If any of you can think of ways to help with resources, please let us know. Please DM us. We’ll be happy to connect you to Dr. Jamil.

Today National Public Radio (NPR) with RadioLab re

Today National Public Radio (NPR) with RadioLab released a new story on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in connection with the ever continuing 50th anniversary of “On Death & Dying.”

If you’ve ever lost someone, or watched a medical drama in the last 15 years, you’ve probably heard of The Five Stages of Grief. They’re sort of the world’s worst consolation prize for loss. But last year, we began wondering… Where did these stages come from in the first place?

Turns out, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. But the story is much, much more complicated than that. Those stages of grieving? They actually started as stages of dying. After learning that, producer Rachael Cusick tumbled into a year-long journey through the life and work of the incredibly complicated and misunderstood woman who single-handedly changed the way all of us face dying, and the way we deal with being left behind.

This episode was reported and produced by Rachael Cusick, with production help from Carin Leong.

This story wouldn’t have been possible without the folks you heard from in the episode, and the many, many people who touched this story, including: Anne Adams, Andrew Aronson, Audrey Gordon, Barbara Hogenson, Basit Qari, Bill Weese, Bob McGan, Carey Gauzens, Clifford Edwards, Cristina McGinniss, Dorothy Holinger, Frank Ostaseski, Ira Byock, Jamie Munson, Jessica Weisberg, Jillian Tullis, Joanna Treichler, Jonathan Green, Ken Bridbord, Ladybird Morgan, Laurel Braitman, Lawrence Lincoln, Leah Siegel, Liese Groot, Linda Mount, Lyn Frumpkin, Mark Kuczewski, Martha Twaddle, Rosalie Roder, Sala Hilaire, Stefan Haupt, Stephanie Riley, Stephen Connor, and Tracie Hunte.

Special thanks to all the folks who shared music for this episode, including:

Cliff Edwards, who shared original music from Deanna Edwards.

And an extra special thank you to the folks over at Stanford University - Ben Stone, David Magnus, Karl Lorenz, Maren Monsen - the caretakers of Elisabeth’s archival collection who made it possible to rummage through their library from halfway across the country.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/queen-dying

“There are only two days in the year that nothin

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.” Dalai Lama

Hospice pioneer Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her tri

Hospice pioneer Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her triplet sisters, Erika & Eva were born 95 years ago today, July 8th. Being both a triplet and a twin, she rarely had her own identity growing up and the three sisters were only known as the “Kübler Triplets.” Later in her work she discovered that hospital patients also lacked an individual identity, just as she had experienced as a young girl. This realization led her to emphasize the importance of every dying patient needing to have their own identity and “voice.” We hope you enjoy these 6 previously unpublished photographs. Happy Birthday Elisabeth, Erika, and Eva!

“Watching a peaceful death of a human being remi

“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (On Death and Dying, 1969) Start your path to finding meaning now, tomorrow is promised to no one.

Love ❤️ Amore 💙 Liebe 💚 الحب 💛 愛 🧡 माही माही

Drawing interpretation was a big part of Elisabeth

Drawing interpretation was a big part of Elisabeth’s work. Both younger & elderly sometimes did not possess the ability to communicate through words. Non-verbal language interpretation was central to the Kübler-Ross technique in communicating with grieving and dying people. Gregg Furth wrote a wonderful book entitled, “The Secret World of Drawings” that is available through Amazon.com/eBay - we highly recommend it.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross loved the movie ET. This is

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross loved the movie ET. This is a copy of the poster she had in her home the last few years of her life. After her final stroke, her partial paralysis caused her to point her finger somewhat like ET. She thought this was actually humorous and gave her more than a few smiles. 😉 She was always looking for the bright side, the glass half full.

A Elisabeth Kübler-Ross le encantó la película ET. Esta es una copia del cartel que tuvo en su casa los últimos años de su vida. Después de su accidente cerebrovascular final, su parálisis parcial hizo que señalara con el dedo como ET. Ella pensó que esto era realmente gracioso y le dio más que unas pocas sonrisas. 😉 Ella siempre estaba buscando el lado positivo, el vaso medio lleno.

Elisabeth’s experiences as both a triplet and a

Elisabeth’s experiences as both a triplet and a twin we’re highly valuable to her later in life as a doctor. Nobody called Elisabeth (bottom left) by her first name because nobody could tell them apart. They were the Kübler triplets or the triplets. Even the teachers gave them the same grades because no body remembered which, was which?? Elisabeth said that taught her the importance of having ones own voice. When she began working with dying patients, she found they also did not have their own voice. They were merely a bed number, the cancer patient in room 305. Elisabeth mission became to give each patient their own voice so that they could die with dignity. Elisabeth was destined to find meaning in every experience of her life, including her birth on July 8, 1926.

There are dreams of love, life, and adventure in a

There are dreams of love, life, and adventure in all of us. But we are also sadly filled with reasons why we shouldn't try. These reasons seem to protect us, but in truth they imprison us. They hold life at a distance. Life will be over sooner than we think. If we have bikes to ride and people to love, now is the time.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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