David Kessler (born February 16, 1959) is an American author, public speaker, and death and grieving expert.
[4] During the HIV/AIDS crisis, he founded Progressive Nursing Services, and he also later co-founded Project Angel Food with Marianne Williamson in 1989.
He also worked with Anthony Perkins, Michael Landon and industrialist Armand Hammer when they faced their own deaths.
She was one of the world's foremost authorities on the psychology of dying and is credited with changing attitudes towards the terminally ill.[10] In 1995 she suffered a series of major strokes, which left her paralyzed and facing her own death.
[12] In 2016, after his son David Kessler Jr. died from an accidental drug overdose amid the opioid crisis,[13][5] Kessler received permission from Kübler-Ross's family and the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, which her son Ken Ross founded,[14] to write Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, where he wrote about a sixth stage of grief, finding meaning.