The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross was a Swiss American psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model.
Read more from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross:On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
On Life after Death, revised
Living with Death and Dying
Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
Death: The Final Stage of Growth