American - Psychologist | July 8, 1926 - August 24, 2004
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
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I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
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Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
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Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
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The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
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My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.
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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
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I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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