Philosophical
What if dying could be designed, like a room or a meal?
Fluorescent lights. Beeping machines. The smell of disinfectant. Everything in a hospital is optimized around keeping the body alive. Almost nothing is designed around what makes a life worth living.
We don't have to solve death. We already know how to make something beautiful.— BJ Miller
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The thinker
Palliative Care Physician
BJ Miller is a palliative care physician and former executive director of the Zen Hospice Project, known for rethinking how we approach the end of life.
Based on What really matters at the end of life — BJ Miller, TED Talk, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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