Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “On Death and Dying” sparked a revolution in end-of-life care. But soon she began to deny mortality altogether.

Below are five stages of a dying marriage outlined by Whetstone. The first four align with some of Vaughan’s findings, while the fifth is one that Whetstone discovered in her own research, she said.

"During the 1970s, the DABDA model of stages of dying morphed into stages of grief, mostly because of their prominence in college-level sociology and psychology courses. The fact that Kübler-Ross ...

Many of us are familiar with Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and her five stages of grief model, put forth in the 1969 book, On Death and Dying. According to Kubler-Ross, grief involves a pathway ...

Kübler-Ross’s career was marked by an unwavering commitment to treating dying patients with dignity and respect at a time when the medical community largely avoided discussions about death.