Elizabeth Kubler Ross, who dedicated her life to studying…

Elizabeth Kubler Ross, who dedicated her life to studying death and dying, wrote that in her many years of being present at the moment when life slipped away what she was moved by was the sight of the sudden serenity and peacefulness that invariably accompanies the passage from one state to the other.

— from The Landing (Death) · Hope, Not Fear by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

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An open confrontation with death tends to move a person into a richer, more vivid existence than the one they had before they knew. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross spent her life at the bedsides of the dying, and what moved her most was the sudden serenity that so often arrived at the end. One man, writing in the grip of terminal cancer, said the diagnosis had proven to him beyond any doubt that he was loved by a great many people — friends and family who, once they knew the truth about his time, finally said the things people so foolishly leave unsaid. — The Landing (Death)

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