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I must have looked at my kitchen calendar a hundred times and read this saying often, without really grasping its meaning It was not until years later that I became aware of the symbolical meaning of the statement, when I started to work with dying patients and followed them from the day of admission to the hospital until the time of their death.
People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Unknown Author
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Kübler-Ross, E. 1969. On Death and Dying. New York, Macmillan.
The literature review is an excerpt from The Meaning of Death to be published by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the late René Fueloep-Miller.
Future Shock“ poem is part of a book in preparation, Children and Death,by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, to be published by Macmillan.
Gordon, D.C. 1970. Overcoming the Fear of Death. New York, Macmillan.
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Kübler-Ross, E. (1973). Life and Death: Lessons from the Dying. In: Williams, R.H. (eds) To Live and To Die: When, Why, and How. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4369-2_12
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