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The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Contributor: Todd Gold)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Scribner (1998-06-19)
ISBN: 0684846314
EAN: 9780684846316
Dewy Decimal #: 150.92
Paperback: 288 pages
Edition: Touchstone Ed
SKU: 29421
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: THE SOFTBACK BOOK! 1998. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION. SOFTCOVER BOOK AND PAGES ARE FINE! Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking. GREAT PACKAGING . Air Mail. YELLOW DOT.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
On Life and Living Elisabeth Kübler-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 study On Death and Dying and continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, Kübler-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.
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Amazon.com Review
Psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has long been considered an expert on the terminally ill, and she is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States. Now retired after a series of strokes, and, at 70, facing her own death, she has written The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying, a highly personal memoir. Besides telling her unusual life's story, this book is also a startling treatise on death. Recounting her research with the dying and with those who claim to have "returned" after dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross also writes eloquently about her belief in the afterlife.
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Customer Reviews
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Disappointing
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-09-03
I don't want to in any way discount the body of work this woman created, yet I have to say I was disappointed in this book. By the end, I kept thinking that the most important lesson Dr. Kubler-Ross needed to learn before she died was humility. She evidently considered herself a thoroughly evolved human being, yet wrote with bitterness about the world she would be leaving behind. Also there were times that she lapsed into sentimentality when speaking about her childhood in Switzerland.
I really wanted to love this book. But I think she revealed more than she realized and robbed readers of an example of her own "good death."
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Loved It
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-25
I loved this book so much that I am having my book group read it. It is an amazing life story about a very driven and gifted woman. This book also has been a gift to have during a very diffcult time. It has helped me immensely through my grieving process.
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We all owe this woman a huge amount of gratitude
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-10-26
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Kubler-Ross had a massive impact on our society and the way we approach death. Her collection of 20,000 interviews with people who died and came back to life showed common threads in almost every way, a spiritual goldmine of positive and loving experiences. This autobiography details how she came to be the person who let us know for sure that death isn't some hokey religious shell-game available only to those who tithe but rather a guaranteed return for all of us to a more loving place.
The first half of this book is tear-inducingly sad and beautiful, and it's hard not love the young Kubler-Ross as she lets her heart lead her through very tough times. There are some exceptionally moving passages that make this book a real must for those who want to feel better about letting go of life and living it more fully here and now.
Unfortunately, the latter part of this book and her life found her enamored of charlatans and spiritual quackery, but in no way does that lessen her accomplishments. Not a one of us is perfect, and very few of us change the way the world sees life. Elizabeth was one such soul, so it's easy to accept her foibles.
I read this book while preparing for an interview with Kubler-Ross, which sadly turned out to be the last she gave before her passing. She was as gracious and wise and funny as this book indicates, and was very much ready to die. She spoke lovingly of her life and happily of letting it go to move on homeward, and she clearly embodied the many positive attributes of this truly moving autobiography.
Highly recommended for those who like to both feel and think.
Knowing that death will be joyous sure takes the load off.
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Moving story of what makes life so worthwhile!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-18
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Heard THE WHEEL OF LIFE by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the author
of the classic ON DEATH AND DYING . . . here, facing her own death
at age 71, she tells the moving story of her life and what makes life so
worthwhile.
It is love!
As she notes, "I have never met a person whose greatest need was
not love."
She then concludes with a powerful final statement, saying, "It is very
important that you do only what you what you love to do. You may be
poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will
totally live. And at the end of your shabby days, you will bless your life
because you have done what you came here to do."
It seems that doing so will make dying easier. Or so it can be
hoped!
Ellen Burstyn's narration added to my enjoyment of the book . . . in
addition, I liked that there was an introduction by the author.
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Where is my item ?
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-03-12
0 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
I never received my product. I only purchased this product as it was of very sentimental value to my mother, however I was bitterly dissapointed to find the product was lost in transit. I would love to say amazon made every effort to find my product, I personally could not believe this to be true. I do appreciate the jesture of a full refund, but I can honestly say I feel totally dishartened by the whole ordeal. I only purchased from amazon as I knew the item was difficult to locate but to pay almost 13 dollars for it to be lost is in my opinion both unacceptable and extremly unsatisfactory. I shall not purchase from amazonm in the future.
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