Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist renowned for her work on grief and death. She developed the model of the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—which describes common emotional responses people experience when facing loss or terminal illness. Her research helped improve understanding and compassion for patients and their families, emphasizing that grieving is a personal process. Her work has had a lasting impact on hospice care, palliative medicine, and how society approaches bereavement, highlighting the importance of emotional adjustment in the face of mortality.