The Wheel of Life A Memoir of Living and Dying

On Life and LivingElisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological studyOn Death and Dyingand continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, Kubler-Ross has brought comfort and understanding to millions coping with their own deaths or the deaths of loved ones. Now, at age seventy-one facing her own death, this world-renowned healer tells the story of her extraordinary life. Having taught the world how to die well, she now offers a lesson on how to live well. Her story is an adventure of the heart -- powerful, controversial, inspirational -- a fitting legacy of a powerful life.

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross is a world-renowned medical doctor, psychiatrist and thanatologist known for her work with children and AIDS patients, and she is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States. Her work has been translated into twenty languages: Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish and Spanish. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.