Movie Description:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross devoted her life to death and dying and achieved world fame in the process. She de-stigmatized dying and drew attention to thetreatment of the terminally ill. This remarkably intimate film was made when Kubler-Ross lived secluded in the desert,awaiting her own death-on theverge of the transition she researched so passionately. Her story is a remarkable one.Born in Zurich in 1926 asa 2-pound triplet, she studiedmedicine in defiance of her parents` wishes and struggled for recognition as a psychiatrist in the United States. In 1969she achieved internationalfame through her work with terminally ill patients in Chicagoand her book `On Death and Dying`. Countless workshops and lecture tours followed,along with the establishment ofa healing center in Virginia (later destroyed by arsonists). In the late Nineties, Kubler-Ross suffered aseries of strokes, and finally succumbed on August 24th, 2004. Conversations with Kubler-Ross form the core of the film. She looks backon her childhood and her work, and explains how she herself faces aging and impending death. Interviews with her sisters, friends and colleaguesare interwoven with extensive archival material to provide a comprehensive look into the life and work of this extraordinary woman.
