Over 50 years ago, Swiss-American psychiatrist, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross, publish her landmark book On Death and Dying, (1969) explaining the process of grief that human beings experience. As a Swiss- American (my paternal grandfather and his family emigrated from Zurich Switzerland) I have always felt some pride in sharing a part of my ancestor’s nationality with this brilliant woman! In my professional career I have see the applications of her brilliant work in many diffe