Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross revolutionized society's approach to death and dying through her landmark 1969 book 'On Death and Dying,' which introduced the five stages of grief model and broke the medical profession's silence on death as a taboo subject. Her work gave voice to dying patients and established the foundation for psychosocial oncology and bereavement care that is now integral to cancer supportive care. She is credited with catalyzing the death awareness movement that ultimately enabled the development of modern palliative and hospice care.