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Summary: a wonderful book
Review: "Life Lesson" which was written by Elisabeth Kubler and David Kessler is a great book with many valuable lessons of life such as the lesson of love, the lesson of loss, the lesson of relationships and so on. Even though this book has many sad stories, they are the authors' experience about death and dying. This book is the right key to open the pains in our heart and helps us have a meaningful life. Many lessons about life and living should be learned, so I highly recommend this book to people who one to get a richer life. The reason why I would recommend this book is because there are a lot of lessons that are very useful to each and every one of us. Moreover, there are many great stories that you would love them. For example, there is a very sad story that really tough my heart and figure out the meaning of love that I had never thought about.The story was about a mother of a little girl who died in an accident. Despite being grief stricken, she appreaciated the fact that the policeman held her daughter close out of caring, giving his warmth of human love in her last moments. This story teaches us a valuable lesson of love that people always need to be loved until the moment they die. The book also teaches us how to enjoy our life and how to love ourselves. For instant, in the lesson of relationships the author reminds us to open our heart to love people around us. The more love we give, the closer we have with all the people we love. In this country, everybody has to work and work. We are too busy so that we seem to forget ourselves. The author recommends us to enjoy the life to make our own life much better.
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Summary: Life Lessons summed up
Review: A best friend with words of wisdom. It's comforting, enlightening, to be read over and over again. To be given as gifts. It covers every area of life, written in a way that you can easily understand each lesson.
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Summary: How to make your life more colorful
Review: As a college reading student, "Life Lessons" is a highly recommended book. Elisabeth and David shared their experience how to deal with the death and dying. Also, show us how to face and overcome them. Within this couple month, I read this book every night. ¡§Life Lessons¡¨ is not only my project, but also is my emotional source. In addition, the chapter Of Loss and Forgiveness really touch my heart. My tear wet my jacket.
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Summary: As Always
Review: As a long time reader of Dr. Kubler Ross I found her book, Life Lessons, to be a fabulous book. She and David Kessler explore a wide range of topics. Dr. Kubler Ross gives the reader the benefit of her years of living and years spent assisting the dying. This is a wonderful book, a real treasure. You will find yourself referring back to it often.
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Summary: Crash Course About What's Important In Life
Review: Being middle age, I'm at a point in my life where I want to investigate what do I really want to do before I die. What do I want to learn in this life? What Ms. Kubler-Ross and Mr. Kessler talk about is things I've already thought about because of my own life experiences but I think this book is valuable for everyone. I recommend this book to people who need to slow down and take stock of their life. It's for people who are mostly 'outer driven'. This book is thoughtfully written and great for people who allow society and our culture decide what is important to them.
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Summary: Life Lessons???
Review: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross has been a tireless exponent and proponent of "tame " death (Phillip Aries) and this book remains true to her efforts to "humanize" death by providing numeorus accounts of how the dying and the bereaved have learned a lesson from dying and death and found comfort and relief. The vignettes are well organized and telling. Unfortunately death and grief are not so easily made tame by learning lessons. Nurses in hospice who receive eduction about death and dying often report more difficulties then learning lessons about living. Spouses of bereaved not infrequently die within a year or two of their mates death. Survivors of violent death often suffer complicated grief reactions that last for years. When death stings people it may be comforting to believe a "lesson" provides closure but these lessons can be cold comfort to those who have suffered an loss of a loved one. Do readers and the author believe Tsunami victims can be made whole by a book that would suggest the fact that they can learn a lesson from their tragedy undoes what happened. So from my point of view this book has a somewhat glib view of the horror and nightmare that death can be.
I can understand how readers can like this book - Ms. Kubler- Ross is like the Grandmother who gives you a hug and offers you tea or hot cocoa-and tells you everything is going to be ok-but this denies the fact that losses are not so easily comforted and often the lesson one learns is that death has a mind of its own-that it can leave open scars that last indefinately and that it is not so easily contained by humanistic notions that we can master the pain of loss and learn from it.
I say it is better for readers to realize death can be more difficult, painful, and disturbing then this book suggests. But as many observers know we remain a nation of death deniers because books like this pander to our need to make it seem death is easier then it often actually is.
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Summary: Gratitude
Review: Everyday I wake up and read Life Lessons. It has given me a new hope. I have always felt a deep sense of regret and loss that I could not understand....this book has made me realize the loss I have suffered, was the loss of myself. I never found the right key. The authors facilitated that. And I just wanted to thank them, their work has touched my heart.I will take it with me always.
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Summary: Will get you thinking about what is important to you!
Review: Heard the taped version of LIFE LESSONS by Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross and David Kessler . . . the authors, experts
on death and dying, use this book to help answer the
question: Is this really how I want to live my life? It got me to think about what was important to me
and, also, how to go about obtaining it . . . as is the
case with some books on tape, this is one that I wish
I had also read because there were so many
quotable parts that I would have wanted to go back
to . . . for example:
Being there and caring is everything in love, in life and
in dying. Whether you're married or not, if you want more romance
in your life, fall more in love with the life you have. In any relationship, one person makes pancakes, the other
one eats them. Everybody falls. Hopefully, they get up. That is life. You have made being a mother a wonderful experience.
It was worth living just to be with you. Remember that play is more than a light hearted moment
here and there. It's actual time devoted to play. You have
to get away from work, get away from life's seriousness.
There are a million ways to introduce play back into your life.
Instead of checking the stock market first thing in the morning,
read the comics, see a silly movie, buy a fun outfit, wear a
colorful tie. If you like, where work is conservative, wear fun
underwear. Practice saying yes to invitations, be more
spontaneous, do something silly. Anything can be play,
but beware, any form of play can also be turned
into productivity.
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Summary: Tells us all what REALLY matters in this life!
Review: I have been a big fan of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross for many years. I'm glad she hasn't passed on yet because she clearly has a lot to tell us still!! David Kessler's experiences add value to the book as well. The chapters are each written on a particular lesson: Time, Fear, Anger, Play, etc... and within each the authors "talk" about the lesson flowing back and forth between each other, presenting their own insights and personal accounts of friends, and patients. This book is terrific if you are interested in learning about life. You will learn the key lessons from people who have been terribly sick or are terminally ill. They have much to teach, because as the book says.. They have nothing to lose anymore. Here is a quote from the section in the book on Patience... "And remember that God and the universe are not ultimately just working on the situation: they're working on you. If you're wondering why the universe isn't soley focused on getting you the great job offer, it's because the universe isn't always concerned with which job you have. The picture is much bigger than your job. Neither is the universe always concerned whether or not you're married-it's more concerned with your experience of love than who is or is not in your life. And rather than focusing soley on your health, the universe is more concerned with your experience of life, whatever the conditions may be. The universe is concerned with who you are, and it will bring into your life, in whatever the situations, in whatever time, what you need to become the person you're supposed to be. The key lies in trusting-and having patience."
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Summary: Life lessons can be taught by the dying
Review: I have had the priveledge and honor of working in hospice nursing for several years now. Sometimes it seems that there just aren't ways to put into words that valuable lessons that those that are so close to leaving this world have to teach us. I listened to the tape version, which I have to say was wonderful.
I feel like Kessler and Ross put into words so much of what is experienced when faced with the ending of this chapter we call life. Death is not ugly, scary, horrible, if you are touched by it, you really can learn from it.
Ross and Kessler in their work with the dying remind us that this time we have here on this planet is not forever. What we say and do everyday to the one's we love, this lovely book reminds us that they may be the last words we say and hear from our dear ones. It is not meant to scare us. life is limited. No one, not one person is immune from death. I see it everyday. It is not scary, but it is a journey in itself and a teacher, to teach us that we want to look back and say I didn't fill my life with anger, I remembered to love because this day can be my last. I remembered to live, and I will tell you that is one of the greatest lessons I have learned from the "dying". Boy do they live. laughter surrounds, hugs are free, words are shared. I don't usually hear stories about how many hours a person worked, or how much money they made, or what clothes they had. They tell me about who they knew, who they loved and love, they show me albums, letters. They talk about their spiritual beliefs. They laugh, they cry. It may sound like I am getting off they subject of the book, but I am not. This IS what the book is about. LIVING now. Remember to Live.
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