On Death and Dying

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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It‘s fine, but not terribly helpful for my situation. I appreciate the difference this book and its author made in the medical profession, but it‘s definitely both specialized and dated.

CRR Have you ever heard/read “When Breathe Becomes Air”? It is a good one on death. 3w

Butterfinger I am so sorry you have to go through this. I have been thinking of you and your mother. 3w

Eggbeater 🫂 3w

ravenlee @CRR thanks for the recommendation; I read that one last month. It was incredible. 3w

ravenlee @Butterfinger @Eggbeater thank you. We got some promising news today and she has a procedure tomorrow, so 🤞🏻 3w

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ravenlee

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Another very timely moment.

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ravenlee

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Well, this seems to hit the nail on the head, not so specifically about dying, but generally for the existential crisis of our times.

Leftcoastzen She was so smart 1mo

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Nerdfins

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It‘s reading and snuggle time. #catsoflitsy

LauraJ Aww...🖤 6y

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Megara

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I‘ve been so caught up with life that I haven‘t been on top of updating my #BFC status!
This past week, I was able to meet my fitness goals. I walked QUITE a bit. I haven‘t finished any more books, however, because my reading focus has been on articles for homework. Currently reading the tagged book for pleasure! @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Way to go! 🙌🏻 You‘re making great progress! 6y

Clwojick Way to go! 🥳🙌🏻💪🏻 6y

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Bookwomble

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us.”

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Bookwomble

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.”
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Choose your guru... ☀️❤🙏🏼
(Better yet, hold two contradictory positions at the same time, fully accepting both 😊)

quietlycuriouskate "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" as I am sure you (and the Crane brothers) already know. 7y

Bookwomble @River_Voice Ha, ha! 😄 I'm decidedly second-rate, then 😉 7y

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Bookwomble

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Starting to surface from a day-long low mood after being accidentally ambushed by a chance remark made by somebody IRL earlier today which reminded me of a sister-shaped hole in my life. Books are only a distraction some of the time. 🕯💖🕯

Aimeesue Sorry. Hope your day gets better. 7y

DivineDiana Sending love. ❤️ 7y

RaimeyGallant I'm thinking of you. 7y

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Bookwomble @Aimeesue @DivineDiana @RaimeyGallant Thank you all ❤ I hesitated to post as, despite working with emotions, I still catch myself in my cultural conditioning of not talking publicly about feelings, particularly those surrounding death and bereavement. However, it's healthy to break the taboos, I think, and it's helpful that the Litsy community feels safe and supportive. 💞 7y

RaimeyGallant I hope it isn't insensitive to say this, but what you wrote, it may just have inspired one of the last lines for my new book. 7y

Bookwomble @RaimeyGallant No it's not insensitive ❤ My sister, Susan, was also something of a bookworm and would certainly approve ☺ 7y

RaimeyGallant @Bookwomble :) 7y

TheFunkyBookworm Hugs 💜 7y

TiredLibrarian 💜💙❤ 7y

Bookwomble @TheFunkyBookworm @TiredLibrarian Thank you 💖 Today has felt better 😊 7y

Tiyas7 @Bookwomble We are always with you, buddy☺ Open up whenever you need to✌ 7y

Bookwomble @Tiyas7 ❤😊 7y

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A_woman_on_a_bike

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“... in our own unconscious we cannot perceive our own death and do believe in our own immortality...”
This isn‘t an everyday read but it happens to be the book I was reading when I came across Litsy for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I have been meaning to read it for over 20 years and, although it has aged (it was first published in 1970), it still has a lot to tell us.
By coincidence I was at a book reading...

A_woman_on_a_bike ... by the wonderful and now elderly Claire Tomalin who at one point was speaking about the death of her first husband and the wise words of her mother-in-law: “Our problem is that we simply cannot imagine our own death”. Discuss 😉 (edited) 7y

A_woman_on_a_bike @RaimeyGallant I‘m not sure that anyone will be that interested in my musings on death and dying on a Saturday morning...but you said to tag you when I finally posted something 🤔😂 7y

RaimeyGallant I'm curious if the author takes a stand on physician assisted suicide? 7y

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A_woman_on_a_bike @RaimeyGallant No she doesn‘t. I guess it wasn‘t even on the horizon in the 70s. It‘s much more about what a person needs to have a ‘good‘ death. This is also the book that brought us the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance. 7y

RaimeyGallant Interesting. Thanks! 7y

A_woman_on_a_bike @RaimeyGallant You‘re welcome...most of my reads are much lighter than this one, I promise 😉 7y

Bookwomble @RaimeyGallant @A_woman_on_a_bike My apologies for crashing your thread, but I'm reading this book and on page 10 of my edition (first paragraph of chapter II), Ross asks the rhetorical question, "... we have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected professionor a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing suffering." I think that's a strong hint in her stance... 7y

Bookwomble ... regarding physician assisted end-of-life. As I'm only on page 10, I don't know of she might state her position more openly. 7y

A_woman_on_a_bike @Bookwomble You‘re welcome to crash in! And yes perhaps it is but my recollection is that she doesn‘t go any further. I think she got it right about being “in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing suffering” though. I‘d be interested to know what you think once you‘ve finished it... 7y

Bookwomble I'll check back in 😊 7y

A_woman_on_a_bike @Bookwomble 👍 7y

RaimeyGallant @Bookwomble Interesting. 7y

Bookwomble While there's no discussion about accelerating the end, as you rightly said, there's this statement by Ross about the dying person choice: "With enough...treatment, many such patients may be given an additional lease on life. I have heard more curses than words of appreciation for the gained time, and I repeat my conviction that a patient has a right to die in peace and dignity. He should not be used to fulfil our own needs" p156 @RaimeyGallant 7y

RaimeyGallant @Bookwomble "Dying with dignity" is used interchangeably with assisted suicide, especially in Canada. 7y

Bookwomble @RaimeyGallant Hmm, a useful euphemism. 7y

A_woman_on_a_bike @Bookwomble @RaimeyGallant Interesting. I had never heard that. In the UK “Dying with dignity” and “a good death” don‘t have that connotation at all. Assisted dying is not a huge topic here, though it does occasionally hit the headlines, but we do have very good hospice care. Perhaps that‘s why 🤔 7y

RaimeyGallant I think it is used in the UK as well, but because physician assisted suicide just became legal in Canada, more people are talking about it here. 7y

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Soubhiville

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

😂🤣😂🤣
(Can you smell the sarcasm?)

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WanderingBookaneer

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The Reserve (Sarasota, FL) #GetIndie

Suet624 Oldy but goody. 8y

tonyahoswalt This book really helped me after my parents passed away. 8y

minkyb What @Suet624 said! 8y

Gissy Wow! I read this one long time ago! I read a couple of her books. She was an untraditional psychiatrist. 8y

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JonathanTurnick

On Death and Dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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I don't get emotional much at all. So with that in mind, this book made me cry.
The dialogues between Elisabeth and her patients were so beautiful, illuminating accounts of real people as the faced the reality we all must, their own death.
The admonishments to love and care were powerful. Read it!

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