A monthly journey into to the weirder, wilder side of the TED archives. May 2016 – BJ Miller ‘What Really Matters At The End Of Life’
‘For most people, the scariest thing about death isn’t being dead, it’s dying, suffering. It’s a key distinction.’
BJ Miller knows a thing or two about death. At college he decided to fool around on a parked commuter train with friends, touched the electric wire and lost three of his limbs. Since then he’s dedicated his life to palliative care; the art of living well and comfortably at any stage of life. He now runs the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco where he’s developed a fascinating perspective on life, death and how to move from one to the other with imagination and meaning.
This post was written by Dan Irwin