《TED英语演讲：在生命的尽头你想要什么 》.docx

TED英语演讲：在生命的尽头你想要什么　　在生命的终点，我们最渴望的是什么?对许多人而言，只是很简单的舒适、尊重和爱BJ*米勒是个安宁疗护医生，他深化考虑如何为他的病患创造有尊严、优雅的生命终点请花点时间品味这场动人的谈话，裡面讨论了我们如何考虑死亡和为人生增光的重要议题下面是小编为大家搜集关于TED英语演讲：在生命的尽头你想要什么，欢送借鉴参考　　英文演讲稿　　Well, we all need a reason to wake up. For me, it just took 11,000 volts.　　I know youre too polite to ask, so I will tell you.　　One night, sophomore year of college, just back from Thanksgiving holiday, a few of my friends and I were horsing around, and we decided to climb atop a parked commuter train. It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead. Somehow, that seemed like a great idea at the time. Wed certainly done stupider things. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that. Would you believe that watch still works? Takes a licking!　　My father wears it now in solidarity.　　That night began my formal relationship with death -- my death -- and it also began my long run as a patient. Its a good word. It means one who suffers. So I guess were all patients.　　Now, the American health care system has more than its fair share of dysfunction -- to match its brilliance, to be sure. Im a physician now, a hospice and palliative medicine doc, so Ive seen care from both sides. And believe me: almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well -- I mean, truly. But we who work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve.　　Why? Well, theres actually a pretty easy answer to that question, and it explains a lot: because healthcare was designed with diseases, not people, at its center. Which is to say, of course, it was badly designed. And nowhere are the effects of bad design more heartbreaking or the opportunity for good design more compelling than at the end of life, where things are so distilled and concentrated. There are no do-overs.　　My purpose today is to reach out across disciplines and invite design thinking into this big conversation. That is, to bring intention and creativity to the experience of dying. We have a monumental opportunity in front of us, before one of the few universal issues as individuals as well as a civil society: to rethink and redesign how it is we die.　　So lets begin at the end. For most people, the scariest thing about death isnt being dead, its dying, suffering. Its a key distinction. To get underneath this, it can be very helpful to tease out suffering which is necessary as it is, from suffering we can change. The former is a natural, essential part of life, part of the deal, and to this we are called to make space, adjust, grow. It can be really good to realize forces larger than ourselves. They bring proportionality, like a cosmic right-sizing. After my limbs were gone, that loss, for example, became fact, fixed -- necessarily part of my life, and I learned that I could no more reject this fact than reject myself. It took me a while, but I learned it eventually. Now, another great thing about necessary suffering is that it is the very thing that unites caregiver and care receiver -- human beings. This, we are finally realizing, is where healing happens. Yes, compassion -- literally, as we learned yesterday -- suffering together.　　Now, on the systems side, on the other hand, so much of the suffering is unnecessary, invented. It serves no good purpose. But the good news is, since this brand of suffering is made up, well, we can change it. How we die is indeed something we can affect. Making the system sensitive to this fundamental distinction between necessary and unnecessary suffering gives us our first of three design cues for the day. After all, our role as caregivers, as people who care, is to relieve suffering -- not add to the pile.　　True to the tenets of palliative care, I function as something of a reflective advocate, as much as prescribing physician. Quick aside: palliative care -- a very important field but poorly understood -- while it includes, it is not limited to end of life care. It is not limited to hospice. Its simply about comfort and living well at any stage. So please know that you dont have to be dying anytime soon to benefit from palliative care.　　Now, let me introduce you to Frank. Sort of makes this point. Ive been seeing Frank now for years. Hes living with advancing prostate cancer on top of long-standing HIV. We work on his bone pain and his fatigue, but most of the time we spend thinking out loud together about his life -- really, about our lives. In this way, Frank grieves. In this way, he keeps up with his losses as they roll in, so that hes ready to take in the next moment. Loss is one thing, but regret, quite another. Frank has always been an adventurer -- he looks like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting -- and no fan of regret. So it wasnt surprising when he came into clinic one day, saying he want。