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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross  

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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist who elaborated the Kübler-Ross model, identifying five stages of coming to terms with dying. In her landmark study, On Death and Dying (1969), she broke down the process of dying in five phases: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth (1926–2004)]

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