Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Language of the Dying & Fear of Death

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross talks about the language of the dying and fear of Death. Taken from an interview in her Flossmoor home by NBC in 1974.

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[7msjster]

'There is a poem in her book on Death and Dying. It is by an anonymous poet. I want to fly but where how high. If in barbed wire things can bloom why can't I? I shall not dy.

Does any one know it.....It has carried me through LIFE since college. In a humanities class this is what I remember. A single passage in an amazing piece of healing words.

[kenrossaz]

Trees flower forth in beauty, Lovely too their very wood all gnarled and old That I am half afraid to peer Into their crowns of green and gold. The sun has made a veil of gold So lovely that my body aches. Above, the heavens shriek with blue Convinced I've smiled by some mistake. The world's abloom and seems to smile. I want to fly but where, how high? If in barbed wire, things can bloom Why couldn't I? I will not die! --Michael Flack, 1944

[kenrossaz]

Sorry we have 100+ videos in 4 languages and only so much time & budget to produce, digitize, convert, etc. these videos... Will try to ad more one of these days....

[7msjster]

So pure her words.

[nym339]

And you don't have to apologise to others really. Am grateful for whatever you are sharing, whenever you are able to.

[nym339]

Thank you kenrossaz for uploading all your videos. I appreciate your effort in coping with so many videos and demands of youtubers. Thanks.

[smurfemusa]

Hello! Where's part 2? You can't just cut off like that.

[1mashoman]

oh, cmon! PART 2???

[TheAdrian260]

The real fear of death ...

[ThisSentenceIsFalse]

The real fear of death....??? That's some cliff-hanger, there! I'll just have to think about it for myself, then.