Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - Death: The Final Stage of Growth / Элизабет Кюблер-Росс - Смерть: последний этап роста. / На английском языке. / 0-671-62238-2 / Книга на английском языке.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - Death: The Final Stage of Growth / Элизабет Кюблер-Росс - Смерть: последний этап роста.

Книга на английском языке.

0-671-62238-2

Издательство: Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York. 1986. 182 с. Мягкий переплет. Формат: 140х200.

Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning. Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death? Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors. Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence.

Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and her colleagues, exploring the condition of patients who learned about the fatal illness, created the concept of "death as a stage of growth." Schematically, this concept is represented by five stages through which the dying passes (as a rule, a non-believer). The first is the stage of “denial” (“no, not me”, “this is not cancer”); the second is the “protest” stage (“why am I ?!”); the third is the “request for deferment” stage (“not yet”, “some more”), the fourth is the depression stage (“yes, I am dying”) and the last is “acceptance” (“let it be”). At this stage, the mental state of a person fundamentally changes. The characteristics of this stage include such statements of once prosperous people as: “Over the past three months I have lived more and better than in my whole life.”