Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross:
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, on July 8, 1926.
From a young age, she was determined to pursue a career in medicine, a decision that clashed with her father’s traditional expectations. Yet, her resolve to help others led her to study medicine at the University of Zurich, where she would later meet her future husband, Emanuel “Manny”.
After completing her medical education in Zurich, Dr. Kübler-Ross moved to the United States in 1958. She worked in hospitals across New York, Colorado, and Chicago, where she was deeply disturbed by the prevailing attitudes toward dying patients. In a system where the terminally ill were often shunned, ignored, or treated as mere medical cases, she took a radically different approach.
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
