Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quote: Death is simply a shedding of the physical...

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is no different from taking off a suit of clothes one no longer needs. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Source: Life Lessons - 2000

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As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Source: Quoted in Teachers in Wisdom - 2010

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Source: On Death and Dying, 1969

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Source: On Death and Dying, 1969