Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Swiss psychiatrist and author who is noted for her work with death and the dying. Her first book, "On Death and Dying," 1969, introduced the five stages of dying; denial, isolation, anger, bargaining and depression, before acceptance; all efforts to maintain power over one's own death. Throughout her life, she has assisted perhaps 20,000 people through their transition into an afterlife. With total belief in the continuity of life spirit through the experience of death, she hit upon a ground breaking method of counseling, listening to the patient first and then continuing with the medical techniques.