Who is Mr. H. from On Death and Dying and what is their importance?

Mr. H. was described as uncommunicative and difficult. He talked to the interview panel, however, for more than an hour. In his interview, the team learned he had lost a daughter as well as his parents, and that he had now lost all hope for himself. The interviewers realized his depression was not so much over his own condition, as it was that he was still grieving the loss of his loved ones. His grief, in addition to the way his wife judges and compares him to the men she knew when she was young, makes him feel completely useless and is a major component of his depression.

When the interviewing staff speaks with his wife, she confirms these feelings, but when they are paraphrased back to her, she jumps to his defense, realizing there are very good qualities about him. His wife then agreed to give him credit for his good points and actually offered to help him by picking up some of his church work, for which she had formerly shown no respect. Her change of attitude seemed to end his depression, and he was eternally grateful for Kubler-Ross and her ability to get his wife to communicate. His depression stage ended when he was able to resolve these problems and move into acceptance of his death.