Austin Chapter
Reader's Guide
June 2004
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has long been considered an expert on the terminally ill, and she is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States. Now retired after a series of strokes, and, at 70, facing her own death, she has written...a highly personal memoir...
- How would you describe the tone of the book? Was it appealing to you?
- Did you like Elisabeth Kübler-Ross as you read her memoir?
- Describe what you think she has done to make the world a better place.
- What is your explanation for Elisabeth's communications with Salem, Mario, Pedro and her other experiences with what she called "her spooks"? (See page 202-204)
- What is your explanation for her out-of-body experience? (See pages 218 - 219)
- Does Elisabeth's view of an afterlife represent your believe? (See pages 209-212)
- Do you think it affirms or conflicts with the Christian Judeo believe of an afterlife?
- Do you think that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has received the appropriate amount of recognition for her contributions to science?
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