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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross invalidity of her theory Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. --Isaac Asimov In modern society death is a touchy subject for most persons. The subject is either avoided or said in euphemisms. There are persons though who study people’s ideas attitudes and emotions towards death, Thanatologists. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, was a Thanatologist from the 70’s who gave insight on what she thought were the stages of what a dying person goes through. These stages are as follows, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. She found that the dying patients will go through these stages upon knowing that they are to die and that she found this as a way for the patient to cope with the idea of dying. When the patient she was speaking with was dying she would try to help them along in their dying process, and ease their mind in the transition to death. As stated in Claudia Chamberlain’s Elisabeth Kubler-Ross talks about her own last stage (http://www.bereavement.org/her_own_last_stage.htm), “Accepting, but "Not Aiding, Death.” was what Kubler-Ross helped patie