Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Humanity

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was American psychiatrist. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.
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“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

On Death and Dying (1969)

“Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975), Ch. 6

“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Source: On Death and Dying (1969), Ch. 2

“Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975), Ch. 5