# Was Elisabeth Kubler-Ross a Nut?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 27, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-elisabeth-kubler-ross-a-nut/674954 "2013-11-27T22:00:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-elisabeth-kubler-ross-a-nut/674954/1 "2013-11-27T22:00:01Z")

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I just finished reading her autobiography. She was a very influential person, and a well regarded psychiatrist. yet, near the end of her life, she started believing a lot of strange things. For example, she once was visited by a woman who showed her polaroid pictures of flowers in her garden-which included elves among the flowers. She then took her own pictures-and saw the elves as well.  
She also got into researching near death experiences.  
What is the concensus? was she a competent doctor who later became a bit soft?