by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Assigned at university, noncompelling, grim, not sure I finished it, short as it was. It felt very much as if even my death would be administered and staged by a tedious bureaucrat. In bringing up this book, I see that the author was also an early pioneer in the hospice movement. You only have to go...
One-sentence summary: A quick, slightly dated book aimed primarily at hospital staff, clergy, and social workers who care for terminally-ill patients and their families, on how to approach the subject and emotional impact of death. This was written in 1969, when apparently patients with terminal m...
Of course, I decided to read this book because I was in the process of losing someone close to me. It's generally considered the starting point for any exploration of the psychology of dying, and it's where the five stages of grief concept originated. Strangely dated (it was written during the Vietn...
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