“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.”

—  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

On Death and Dying (1969)

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American psychiatrist 1926–2004

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