At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. Take the time to savor this moving talk, which asks big questions about how we think about death and honor life.
What Really Matters at the End of Life
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What a difficult thought that of death: the thought of something that awaits us when we are no longer there, of something that we cannot know by experiencing it and that therefore we cannot transform at will to try to suffer less from the sense of threat and tragedy that it introduces in life!
In a word: the thought of death is the thought that thinks the limit of thinking!