I never really appreciated the one-size-fits-all image that the public has of her "5 stages of grief theory". She offered us much more than that.
But that's our sound bite culture for you.
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"She was best known for her 1969 book "On Death and Dying," bringing the forbidden topic of terminal illness into the public discourse. She pioneered hospice care after working with dying hospital patients whose plight she considered intolerable.
As for her own death, she was in the acceptance stage for years, said her son, Kenneth Ross.
"For her, death wasn't something to fear. It was like a graduation," he said Wednesday."