Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published April 30, 2012.
I suspect most from the present generation have never heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. But many of us baby boomers recall her groundbreaking contributions to understanding the process of death and dying.
Seeing as how leaving this world is a journey each of us faces alone, I find this psychiatrist's efforts on behalf of the dying remarkable and informative.
I compare them with the humanitarian work performed in India by the late Mother Teresa. I don't know Kubler-Ross' religious persuasion (or if she even subscribed to one) except that she was born into a Protestant family in Switzerland in 1926.
