The Wheel of Life

by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Book Overview

From the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying comes an inspiring account of a life well-lived with compassion and service. Elisabeth K bler-Ross, MD, is the woman who has transformed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684193612
• ISBN13: 9780684193618
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An honest Memoir

Those who grouse & are dismayed at the second half of the book perhaps have not traveled far enough on their own spiritual journeys yet to understand. I found the book, like all her works, thoughtful, insightful & honest. Having worked in hospice nearly 30 yrs, in part due to Dr. Kubler-Ross, I can honestly say that in hospice you see many things that are beyond the scope of everyday life. The more I see of human Spirituality in hospice paitents & their families the less judgmental I tend to be.

learn how to live and love....marvelous and amazing book

IF you want to be touched and moved by love and tears...this is it. one of the great books that I've ever read. It touches your heart and brings down your tears as well. I want to recommand this great book to everyone who want to live a meaningful life.P161 *Naturally I shared these kinds of rewarding moments with my family and hoped they learned not to take anything for granted. There were no guarantees in life, except that everyone faces struggles. It is how we learn. Some face struggle from the moment they are born. They are the most special of all people, requiring the most care of compassion and reminding us that love is the sole purpose of life.P. 163 * Later someone would ask what all those dying patients had taught me about death. First I thought about giving them a very clinical explanation, but then I would have misrepresented myself. My dying patients taught so much more than what it was like to be dying. They shared lessons about what they could have done, and what they should have done, and what they didn't do until it was too late, until they were too sick or too weak, until they were widowers or widows. They looked back at their lives and taught me all of the things that were really meaningful, not about dying....but about living

A Perennial collection, by a wonderful lady

Death is not a cognizable feeling, it is an esoteric truth and can only be understood by those who have had such an experience, otherwise it is abstrusely difficult to know the feeling. The novel is the most sincere, honest, and revelatory psychological treatment of the epoch to come out after a long time.There are catechisms handed to all students but there are never a single statement mentioning of life after death in a positive way and when there is a positive way of after life there are conditions attached to it. Pray, and please the God, speak truth and God will be pleased, do this, do that and in certain prescribed manners - only then will you be able to head towards the heaven, which is the only positive representation of after death experience. The frescoes on the ceilings of any church are designed keeping these facts in mind. It has even become preterlegal to speak in such manner in some countries. There are countries where you are forced to pray. People do not pray for God, but merely for the government to lead a clean life.These were the thoughts, which encircled me after reading this perennial document. Dr. Ross is definitely a very learned lady and the way she has described the four stages of human life is amazing. The way she divided her book into four segments is absolutely tremendous. Her real life experiences and the day-to-day dealings with patients are so self inductive that they leads us to the situations, which we were never aware of. Honestly I never looked at the patients like that before after I read her book. She is such a gentle human.I would definitely recommend you all to read this book and get enlightened. This is a book on her life experience but through her there is so much for us to learn.This is one of the greatest books I have ever gone through.And I do hope you enjoy it as much as I did.Happy Reading!

Read about life

After I read this book,I know more about death and dying.But what really attract me?I think it's the writer-Elisabeth Kubler Ross-herself.This book is just like a autobiography of herself.Tell us all about her family and her school life.Let us not only know more about what is death and dying but why and how she would like to devote herself to study thanatology.Everyone should read it,because it is really a book about life itself.

Typical Kubler-Ross courage is between every line.

I first saw and heard Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on public tv in the mid 70's; I was fascinated with her and with her work from that first introduction. This writing of her life was a must read for me personally and I was engrossed from cover to cover. Though I was a little surprised to read about her involvement with channelers (something I personally can't accept), her writing about it as part of her own life was not a turnoff to me. She has a very good point, as she says many times in her book, that we should be open to all things and not rule out happenings as being within the realm of possibility. When EKR speaks or writes about death and dying the listener/reader does not feel great sadness. She was granted the gift of passing on to others an understanding of death as a natural and very important part of living, to be dealt with with dignity and compassion. With this book, as with everything I've ever read or heard by her, EKR has helped me to understand just a little more about how to live life to the fullest. This world is better by far for having been influenced by her wisdom.