BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life

TED 2015
BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life (script)
Summary
The most important thing for the end of our life is a shift in our perspective to all sorts of things.
The scariest thing about death isn't being dead but it's about dying and suffering.
Even in the natural and essential part of your life which is death, you can see suffering that you can change.
Even if some systems of your body are broken, you can feel primal sensorial delights until the end.
Then you don't ask too much of your hospital. You should design your end of life because the hospital is not a place to live and die.
The speaker said, "We have to make a space in our minds to agree with our death."
It's not about being able to solve death but to live out our lives. We can learn a lot to live well from small things and our usual day.
We can always find a shock of beauty or meaning in what line we have left. To realize them leads us to designing our whole life even our death.
Words in this story
repugnance / intense disgust.
sterility / the quality or condition of being sterile.
trauma / physical injury. a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. injury, damage, wound, cut.