And the key ingredients are known: policy, education and training,systems, bricks and mortar. We have tons of input for designers of all stripes to work with.
Rather, I am asking that we make space -- physical, psychic room, to allow life to play itself all the way out -- so that rather than just getting out of the way, aging and dying can become a process of crescendo through to the end.
Along with the Zen Hospice Project he directs, palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients face their own deaths realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Through the work of Zen Hospice Project, Miller is cultivating a model for palliative care organizations around the world, and emphasizing healthcare’s quixotic relationship to the inevitability of death.
Miller’s passion for palliative care stems from personal experience -- a shock sustained while a Princeton undergraduate cost him three limbs and nearly killed him. But his experiences form the foundation of a hard-won empathy for patients who are running out of time.
What others say
“Under Miller’s guidance, Zen Hospice Project has set for itself the goal of transforming society’s phobia of death through open awareness and kindness.” — Tricycle, Spring 2012
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