Death: The Final Stage of Growth Book

Ours is a death-denying society. We hide it behind the sterile walls of the hospital and the cosmetic mask in the funeral home. But death is inevitable and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief and accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death?From her own personal views and experiences and from comparisons with how our culture and others view death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross provides some answers to these and other questions by offering a spectrum of viewpoints from ministers and rabbis, doctors, nurses, sociologists, personal accounts by those near death, and their survivors. The author shows how through an acceptance of our finiteness, we can grow; for death provides a key to the meaning of human existence. Death offers each of us a chance to discover life's true meaning by coming to terms with death as a part of human development.Read More