Linda Kubler-Ross Essay

Born in 1926, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross almost died as an infant. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, she was the third of the triplets, weighting only two pounds. Ross suffered under a cruel and bitter father, for example, once took her pet rabbit to a slaughter house and then forced Elisabeth to join the family as they had her pet rabbit for dinner as stated in Biography.com Editors (unknown). Ross always wanted to be a doctor but her father restrained her wish and demanded she become a secretary at the family business or become a maid. Defining her parents, she left her home at 16; she worked at a hospital as a volunteer in WWII. After the war, Ross volunteered to help in numerous war-torn communities. She was very affected by a visit to the Maidanek …show more content…
One Day, a mentor of hers, who taught psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, had invited her to speak to a large group of medical students on a topic of her choice. Keeping the attention of critical and challenging medical students was a hard task, so Ross eventually decided to pick an unusual topic, death, which she believed would be an effective topic for the class. So, she took young girl Linda, 16 years old, suffering from leukemia. She had begun consoling Linda who was angry about her situation and also felt isolated from everyone. Ross informed the students in class to ask any questions they wanted. During this session, Ross started to ask her questions about her feelings. This led to Linda’s eruption in an emotive rant asking questions to the class about what mattered to her. For example, not being able to follow her dreams, go to prom or growing up which left the class in tears. Ross helped the students understand what dying patients feel and that these patients should still be treated with compassion, the same way they would like to be …show more content…
At this job, four students from the Chicago Theological Seminary found out that she was involved in terminal illness studies