The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
About This Book
Kübler-Ross's memoir, written near the end of her life, traces her remarkable journey from childhood in Switzerland through her work with dying patients, the development of the death-and-dying movement, and her increasingly controversial later years investigating near-death experiences and afterlife phenomena. Unsparing about both her achievements and her mistakes, it is a meditation on what a life spent in the presence of death can teach about living.
What You'll Learn
The work of accompanying the dying is not depressing but profoundly life-affirming — it clarifies what actually matters and strips away what does not. The near-death experiences reported consistently by patients across cultures and backgrounds convinced Kübler-Ross that consciousness survives physical death. The ultimate lesson she learned from thousands of dying patients: the only thing that matters at the end is how well you loved.
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