What matters at the end of life

BJ Miller, a palliative physician, talks about designing the last stretch of a life around a person, not only around a disease. The talk is in English. It starts from an American hospital, and the question is familiar anyway: what still matters in a room, beside a bed, on a last afternoon.

Miller comes back to this: the person should not disappear from their own story. A window. A familiar smell. Someone who says their name. These do not replace medical care. They show what remains when cure is no longer the aim.

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