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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

On Grief and Grieving

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · 2005
83/100
👍 Worth It

Kübler-Ross and Kessler turn the famous five stages toward bereavement specifically, and they're careful to frame the stages as descriptive tools rather than a checklist — a correction the field badly needed. The prose is compassionate and accessible, and Kübler-Ross's own approaching death adds a layer of authenticity that no other author could bring. A foundational resource for anyone sitting with loss.

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