What really matters at the end of life

2022年09月28日

彼は医者ですが、両足に義足があり、肘から下の左腕はありません。私はこのビデオを何度も見ましたが、毎回感動しています。今回はネットフリックスのドキュメンタリー映画も紹介します。彼のセリフを少し紹介します。「ここにいる理由は、死というものを通して話し続けることです･･･死を受け入れることは難しいかもしれませんが、死を身近に感じることには慣れることができるようです。」(English) He is a doctor, but he has prostheses on both legs and no left arm below the elbow. I've watched this video many times, and every time I'm impressed. This issue also features a documentary film from Netflix. He said: The reason to be here is to continue to talk through this thing called death... We may find it difficult to accept death, but it seems we can get used to feeling death by our side.

What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller

When he was 19, he playfully climbed on the train's roof, and electricity ran through his body, causing severe injuries.

He then actually had surgery in the hospital.

After that, the nurse made a snowball and gave it to him.

It broke the rules but was comfortable with his hot body and saved his heart.

We are alive for these moments and meaningful moments.

And we can prepare our hearts to accept dying.

After that, he became a doctor and now works in Zen Hospice.

It is a facility that accepts dying patients.

In Zen hospice, if a patient passes away, they decorate many flowers above a dead body and sing a song around it.

It seems that we can feel death is a beautiful moment.

He said we need a peaceful body and mind when a person dies in a regular hospital.

But patients are surrounded by many lights and noisy-sounding machines, which are immediately washed and carried out when the time comes.

That makes sense, but it's not a good moment.

We need to change the law and need new teams and facilities.

We need to respect each other and celebrate how we spend our last moments.

We may find it difficult to accept death, but it seems we can get used to feeling death by our side.

When he first encountered palliative care, his sister appeared to have committed suicide due to depression.

She is brilliant. It seems that reason.

This must have had a considerable impact and meaning in his life.

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By "End Game"

The reason to be here is to continue to talk through this thing called death.

It could be terrible, but it could be fantastic.

This part of my life is lovely.

Doing this work and being near people at the very end, everything I've seen would suggest wherever we're going; I don't know that it's so bad.

The basic principle of the Zen hospice project you don't run away from the hard stuff.

You don't run away from suffering.

Our mission is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Have you heard of palliative care?

We work together.

It's doctors, nurses, social workers, and chaplains.

They are helping people live as well as possible for as long as possible.

Every moment is still a gift. You're still here.

Healthy people think about how they want to die, and sick people feel about how they want to live.

The scary part is the unknown and the lack of control.

Maybe we can get used to it a little bit if we can't change that.

There's nothing inherently medical about dying.

It's much more significant than medicine.

It's purely human.

Part of the mission is to keep all of this couched in humanity.