Rating: Summary: learn how to live and love....marvelous and amazing book Review: IF you want to be touched and moved by love and tears...this is it. one of the great books that I've ever read. It touches your heart and brings down your tears as well. I want to recommand this great book to everyone who want to live a meaningful life.P161 *Naturally I shared these kinds of rewarding moments with my family and hoped they learned not to take anything for granted. There were no guarantees in life, except that everyone faces struggles. It is how we learn. Some face struggle from the moment they are born. They are the most special of all people, requiring the most care of compassion and reminding us that love is the sole purpose of life. P. 163 * Later someone would ask what all those dying patients had taught me about death. First I thought about giving them a very clinical explanation, but then I would have misrepresented myself. My dying patients taught so much more than what it was like to be dying. They shared lessons about what they could have done, and what they should have done, and what they didn't do until it was too late, until they were too sick or too weak, until they were widowers or widows. They looked back at their lives and taught me all of the things that were really meaningful, not about dying....but about living
Rating: Summary: Must reading for everyone Review: Inspirational writer, speaker and human being opens her heart and soul and shares it with the whole at large. Every family should have this on their bookshelf for when it is needed. No one knows when that time will be but this book will help in the preparation.
Rating: Summary: Must reading for everyone Review: Inspirational writer, speaker and human being opens her heart and soul and shares it with the whole at large. Every family should have this on their bookshelf for when it is needed. No one knows when that time will be but this book will help in the preparation.
Rating: Summary: Conquer your fears and live for today Review: Kubler-Ross is a role model to be looked upon for faith, courage and love, and the greatest of her gifts is love. In the footsteps of her mentor Dr. Albert Schweitzer she vowed to live and give her life for those less fortunate then herself. In her memoirs she give us an account of her life from her years has living her childhood as a triplet and not having an identity to her years as a young woman finding her identity and her golden years lived out with the same force, determination and courage as in her youth. She never deterred from her goals and focused herself beyond what life and circumstances were sent her way. She could have stopped in mid-stream, saying that she had done enough for humanity but at the age of 63, after many disasters, went to Virginia to set up a home for children dying of AIDS. She met with much disapproval but managed to get beyond the dissent of the people and found foster homes for these children. Since 1972, I have been interested in the issues of death and dying and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has confirmed many of my ideas and beliefs. Thank you Elisabeth for taking a stand and making this world a better place.
Rating: Summary: I Loved this Book. It was the final piece of the puzzle. Review: Kubler-Ross is the kind of heroine I want our young women of today to role model after. She is a great example of how to follow your passion. Life would hold so much more meaning if we could all find the courage to do that.
Rating: Summary: honest and straightforward manner Review: Kubler-Ross writes the account of her life in an honest and straightforward manner without worry about whom she might offend. Her accounts of interactions with hospital staff and doctors are unabashedly arrogant yet funny, and we're compelled to remember ourselves or loved ones who've been in similar, seemingly uncontrollable, situations. In this book, Dr. Ross reveals more of her own spirituality and unique experiences -- some of which are hard to swallow -- but yet, she writes of these experiences to share information rather than to persuade the reader to believe. I thoroughly enjoyed it
Rating: Summary: Yes, I am dying! Review: Sure, like everyone else, I will die... When? I don't know, it might be in a couple of days, or years, "I" don't know, but "Soul" knows. Reading this book strenghten my belief that you have to enyoy life the more you can right now, after all it's YOUR life! Also, it showed me that life is a on-going process... why being afraid of life, we won't get out alive anyway! It also showed me the truth behind another "scientific" book "Journey of Souls", by Michael Newton.
Rating: Summary: Truly Amazing Review: The first and certainly not the last book I will be reading of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This unforgetable reading of Kubler Ross's life will remain inspirational throughout my own work with the terminally ill. I simply could not put the book down and read it from start to finish with many tears involved, not all tears of sadness but of sheer amazement at the commitment, love and dedication Kubler Ross displayed towards others throughout her life. I admired her strength for never giving up what she believed in even though others made it difficult for her along the way. The Wheel of Life is a remarkable book written by a remarkable woman. It MUST be read!.
Rating: Summary: Truly Amazing Review: The first and certainly not the last book I will be reading of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This unforgetable reading of Kubler Ross's life will remain inspirational throughout my own work with the terminally ill. I simply could not put the book down and read it from start to finish with many tears involved, not all tears of sadness but of sheer amazement at the commitment, love and dedication Kubler Ross displayed towards others throughout her life. I admired her strength for never giving up what she believed in even though others made it difficult for her along the way. The Wheel of Life is a remarkable book written by a remarkable woman. It MUST be read!.
Rating: Summary: Touching and heart warming tale Review: The life of the "Death and Dying" lady. Kubler-Ross's life had it ups and downs. A great read.
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