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Written & read by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 5 hours

Publisher, Audio Renaissance (March 2000)

On Death and Dying was created to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill. It is not a psychoanalytic study of the dying, nor is it a "how-to" manual for managing death. Rather, it refocuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, in the hope that we will learn more from him about the final stage of life, with all its anxieties, fears, and hopes.

This remarkably insightful program takes a close look at the attitudes of the dying and examines the factors that contribute to society's anxiety over death. It looks at the five stages of death:

denial and isolation
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance

and how the dying and the living deal with them.

The classic work, now combined for the first time with its sequel, encourages us not to shy away from the "hopelessly" sick, but to get closer to them, to learn more about the functioning of the human mind and the unique human aspects of our existence, and to emerge from the experience enriched, with fewer anxieties about the natural course of our lives.

Dialogues on Death and Dying presents a series of readings of some of the most revealing interviews Dr. Kubler-Ross conducted with her patients. By sharing some of the most intimate and sensitive feelings expressed by those men and women, it is hoped that we may learn more about death and lessen our own anxieties about the natural courses of our lives.

Dialogues on Death and Dying focuses specifically on communication - how to talk with and listen to the terminally ill, and how to truly hear their fears, hopes, angers, and anxieties.