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Article: Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
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K
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bler-Ross, Elisabeth
Elisabeth K
ü
bler was born on July 8, 1926, the first of three daughters born that day to a middle class family in Zurich, Switzerland. In her autobiography
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
(1997), K
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bler-Ross commented: "For me, being a triplet was a nightmare. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. I had no identity apart from my sisters. . . . It was a heavy psychological weight to carry around." However, as an adult she concluded that the circumstances of her birth "were what gave me the grit, determination and stamina for all the work that lay ahead" and throughout her autobiography she describes herself as independent, ...