Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient i…

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ✨ On Death and Dying. Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969.
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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ✨ On Death and Dying. Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969.

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