Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the book On Death and Dying in 1969 which transformed American attitudes toward death. She is known for revolutionizing the care of the terminally ill. The idea of death and dying was not talked about much by people in medical fields before Kubler-Ross. She has visited with and helped many dying patients. One of the most important things she has done is helped to create hospice movement in the United States.
             Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's description of the so-called stages of dying: the progression of a patient's coping mechanisms from denial and isolation through anger, bargaining with God, depression, and finally acceptance of the inevitable, provided a foundation for treatment that we still use today. With all of these new factors brought about, Kubler-Ross redefined the word death.
             Another thing she is known for is lecturing all over the world. At the University of Colorado Kubler-Ross gave a lecture featuring dying patients who let physicians and students hear how they felt. This made the physicians and students focus more on their patients feelings, which could make the dying process easier on the patient.
             Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's main goal is to "break through the layer of professional denial that prohibited the patients from airing their innermost concerns." Her prescriptions to death were: listen to your patients, learn what their concerns are and help to address them. These all had a revolutionary impact on the way we see death and dying.
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