Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD

Dealing with death When a famous person dies it is usual for newspapers to print an obituary – that is, a text in tribute to their life. Read the obituary for Elisabeth KüblerRoss and choose the correct option to complete sentences 1–7. 4 Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, perhaps the world’s leading expert on death and dying, has herself died at the age of 78. The Swiss doctor, who devoted her life to the terminally ill, died on August 24 th 2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was surrounded by family and close friends. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1926, Elisa- beth was one of triplet sisters. Her interest in death was a result of the time she spent in the International Voluntary Service for Peace, an organisation which helped communities suffering from the devastation of the Second World War. In Maidanek, a concentration camp, she found pictures of butterflies sketched onto the walls – a symbol that she would use for the beautiful transformation that she believed took place at the time of death. She graduated in medicine from the University of Zurich, where she also met her husband-to-be, Emanuel “Manny” Robert Ross, and in 1958 she went to America to work in hospitals in New York, Colorado and Chicago. She was particularly concerned by the way dying patients were treated – ignored, as if no-one wanted to get involved. She made a point of sitting with them and listening to what they wanted to talk about. She began giving lectures based on her experiences and featuring terminally ill patients who talked about their dying experiences. “My goal was to break through the layer of professional denial that prohibited patients from airing their innermost concerns,” she wrote. She gained international fame with her classic book “On Death and Dying” published in 1969 – a book that is still standard reading on most nursing and psychological courses. Her influence continued to grow throughout the seventies as she continued to give speeches and work in hospitals. The “five psychological stages of dying” (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance) introduced in her book soon became accepted as common knowledge through- out the world. She was also interested in mysticism, the afterlife, and other less commonly accepted forms of therapy, and in 1980 she bought a 300 acre farm in Virginia which she called “Healing Waters” and used as a healing workshop centre. She retired in 1995 after a series of strokes left her debilitated. However, even in retirement she continued to receive visitors from all over the world. Among the celebrities who dropped in were Mohammed Ali, Susan Sarandon and Lady Sarah Ferguson. In 1999 she was named as one of Time magazine’s 100 greatest scientists and thinkers of the century. (based on information from http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/index.html ) triplet: Drilling her husbandtobe: ihr zukünftiger Ehemann acre: Morgen (Flächenmaß, ca. 4.000 m²) 90 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum de Verlags öbv