Many have heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who was a pioneer in the care, support, and counseling of those terminal patients. Dr. Kübler-Ross explored grief and dying and is well known for her book On Death and Dying, in which she first described her classically regarded “Five Stages of Grief.” You may be wondering why this focus on death and dying — you thought this was a book about living with breast cancer. The grieving process applies to personal trauma, a crisis, or a dramatic change that comes as a result of the breast cancer diagnosis. Dr. Kübler-Ross wrote, “It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will then begin to live each day to the fullest as if it was the only one we had.”