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Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is born in Zurich, Switzerland

    The first born of triplets.
  • Enrolled in the medical school at the University of Zurich.

  • Graduated from the University of Zurich

  • She moved to New York

  • Married Emanuel Robert Ross

    An American doctor she met in medical school.
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    Rotating Internship, Community Hospital, Glen Cove, Long Island, NY

  • Accepted a position at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

  • Completed her training in psychiatry.

  • Became an instructor at the University of Chicago’s medical school.

  • Her first book "On Death & Dying" was published

  • A Life magazine ran an article on Kübler-Ross,

  • She delivered the The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at the University of Harvard

  • "Questions & Answers on Death & Dying" was published

  • President, Ross Medical Assoc. (S.C.) Flossmoor, IL., 1973

  • Death: The Final Stage of Growth

  • Woman of the Year in Science and Research

  • President, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Center, Head Waters, Virginia, 1977

  • "To Live Until We Say Goodbye" was published

  • Her husband requested a divorce.

  • Ladies' Home Journal honored her with a Woman of the Decade Award

  • "The Dougy Letter -A Letter to a Dying Child" was published

  • "Working It Through" was published

  • "Living With Death & Dying" was published

  • "Remember The Secret" was published

  • Purchased a 300-acre farm in Head Waters, Virginia there she built a healing center for workshops

  • Announced her intention to adopt AIDS-infected babies

  • "On Children & Death" was published

  • "AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge" was published

  • Her house was set on fire and burned to the ground.

    With the complete loss of all her papers and possessions.
  • Suffered a series of major strokes, which left her paralyzed

  • Retired

  • Forty acres of land in Escondido, California, near San Diego, where she founded "Shanti Nilaya" (Home of Peace). She intended it as a healing center for the dying and their families.

  • "The Wheel of Life" was published

  • Time magazine named her as one of the "100 Most Important Thinkers" of the past century

  • "Life Lessons" was published

  • Moved into a hospice.

  • Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross died at the age of 78

  • “On Grief and Grieving” was published

    Elisabeth’s last book, co-written with David Kessler.
  • Chosen for induction intoThe National Women’s Hall Of Fame