The Four Quadrants as a model of health: Finding balance between the Physical (Body), the Emotional (Heart), the Intellectual (Mind) and the Spiritual (Soul).
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation
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The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation is dedicated to furthering the legacy and work of pioneering legend, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. This Swiss born doctor is considered one of the founders of the modern day hospice movement.


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Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is the author of two dozen books that have been translated into 44 languages. TIME Magazine named her, "One of the 100 most important thinkers of the 20th century."
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The EKR Foundation's goals are to increase access to quality hospice and palliative care globally while also encouraging compassionate care of the dying and grieving.

We also continue to share her published work through new media avenues via collaborations with filmmakers, authors, and others who request partnership opportunities. We encourage you to visit our website: www.ekrfoundation.org to learn more about Elisabeth's visionary work, which still applies today.
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From Elisabeth:
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
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What others are saying...
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Thanks in large part to Dr. Kübler-Ross’s great achievements, our society has made major advances in dealing with death and dying
-Mark Siegler, MD, American Journal of Bioethics
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It was the work of Kübler-Ross, through writing, audiotapes and videotapes, that gave these patients the opportunity to tell their stories about what they were going through.
-David Magnus, PhD, Bioethics Dept., Stanford University
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She single-handedly initiated the current transformation we are experiencing around Western culture's responses to death, dying and the bereaved.
-Joanne Cacciatori, PhD, Miss Foundation
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross added how we die to the agenda of cultural revolutions taking place in realms of the environment, social rights, and health care.
-Ira Byock, MD
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"On Death & Dying" is one of the most important humanitarian works on the care of the dying written in the Western world
-Allan Kellehear, MD
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It is not coincidence that the woman who taught us so much about death and dying as a process was truly the greatest champion of life.
Muhammad Ali
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