Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Is Dying

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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From October 9, 1997: Oprah talks with author and psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross about her autobiography, Wheel of Life. A pioneer in death and dying studies, Elisabeth shares the greatest lessons she’s learned from those who are dying, how she is welcoming death at the end of her own life and how she’s able to never give up. Also, journalist, philanthropist and author Mitch Albom discusses his New York Times best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie. He explains how death is an opportunity to teach, and shares why he believes the love we create in our lives continues after death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross passed away in 2004 at a nursing home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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0:57.0	One of the reasons why I wanted to do this show is I think the purpose of death is to remind you how to live in the moment every day.
1:08.0	And I wanted to talk to somebody who knows a whole lot about that, the inventor, the creator actually of the hospice movement,
1:14.8	Elizabeth Kubla Ross, which I'd read her book, Wheel of Life, and she was in preparation for dying
1:21.0	herself. So the death and dying lady was getting ready to die.
1:24.4	But I went out to Arizona to talk to her and found out that she's not so keen on dying right now.
1:29.0	Yeah. She not so keen on dying right now. I walked in expecting to find her like,
1:35.0	dying. And she said, well, she's kind of iffy about it right now. If you've seen someone you love go to a hospice or maybe you've read a book about how to cope with death,
1:51.0	you have this woman to thank. She is Elizabeth Kubler Ross and if
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