Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has dedicated her life to death and dying, for which she has gained worldwide recognition. With her humane and down-to-earth approach, she has done much to destigmatize death and improve the treatment of terminally ill patients of all ages. She led an extraordinary life, beginning with her birth in Switzerland in 1926 as a 1 kilo triplet. She went to medical school against her parents' wishes and had to fight to be recognized as a woman physician and psychiatrist in the United States. Her seminal book, "On Death and Dying", brought her international fame. This intimate portrait was filmed in 2002, while she was living as a recluse in the desert, waiting - as she says - for her own death.
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▷ 0:00 - Intro
▷ 02:07 - Facing Death
▷ 01:20:08 - Credits

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In our contemporary societies, death remains a taboo that we dare not face, as it raises questions and confronts us with the unknown and uncertainty. As Nobert Elias said, death in the West is the subject of a social repression, it has been largely invisibilized. The own mortality of the human still scares, this explains the emergence of transhumanism and this desire to extend human life to its limits. And yet, in the 60's, a book came out in the United States that tried to change the mentalities about death and dying. This book, "On Death and Dying", was written by a Swiss doctor, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and became a worldwide success with more than one million copies sold and was translated into 26 languages.
Through the testimonies of her family and acquaintances, this documentary paints a portrait of this great pioneer on the question of the end of life that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was, while addressing the controversies that surrounded her thought towards the end of her life. She, who claimed to be a descendant of Jung and Ghandi, broke a real taboo by questioning man's relationship with death.
Very early on, she was confronted with death, which had a great influence on her career and her thinking. She studied medicine at the university against the wishes of her father and met her future husband, an American who was also a doctor. She quickly became involved in the psychological care of the dying and came into contact with death and dying people on a daily basis. She soon became aware of the importance of dying with dignity by accompanying the dying in their last moments. In her book "On Death and Dying", she describes the five stages through which the dying person passes: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Her ideas caused a real controversy, as they raised both medical and theological issues. Despite the criticism, she continued her fight for the rights of the dying. She claimed that she was not seeking scientific accuracy and rigor, but human sympathy and emotional understanding of the processes surrounding death. Kübler-Ross then became the expert in thanatology.
However, in the 1970s, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' thinking took a new turn after having had a near-death experience. Her thought was tinged with New Age and esotericism, which was then in vogue in those years of counter-culture in California, and posed serious controversies. Moving away from the Cartesian world, she put forward the idea of an afterlife. The center closed following accusations of charlatanism. However, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross opened a second center in Virginia where she welcomed AIDS patients in the midst of the HIV epidemic. But the experiment was again a failure. She ended up isolated in the Arizona desert in a vegetative state, she who had tried to untaboo death, awaited her own.

Original title: Facing Death
A film by Stefan Haupt

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