Replay: BJ Miller shares Five Things He's Learned about Living and Dying in the Pandemic
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“What I really hope to focus on is what I’ve learned even more clearly about living and dying since last March, when the pandemic began. I’ll explain how living in the face of illness can set off a cascade of realization and appreciation; how loss can be the force that shows you what you love and urges you to revel in that love while the clock ticks; and how I’ve often seen that reveling in love is one sure way to see through and beyond yourself to the wider world, where immortality lives.”
– Dr. BJ Miller, Five Things I've Learned about Living and Dying in the Pandemic
Dr. BJ Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. Here’s the first five minutes of BJ’s two-hour class in which he shares the Five Things He’s Learned about living and preparing for death after this year of shared loss, challenge, and renewal.
Five Things I’ve Learned about Living and Dying in the Pandemic provides strategies for planning ahead, dealing with illness, seeking help, preparing for the end of life, and managing practical matters after death. His class also delves into the profound insights gained from living and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the importance of love, appreciation, and connecting with the wider world.
Ready to see through and beyond yourself to the wider world? This class is for you.
BJ’s been on faculty at his alma mater, UCSF, since 2007 and has worked in all settings of care: hospital, clinic, residential facility, and home. Led by his own experiences as a patient, BJ advocates for the roles of our senses, community and presence in designing a better ending. His interests are in working across disciplines to affect broad-based culture change, cultivating a civic model for aging and dying and furthering the message that suffering, illness, and dying are fundamental and intrinsic aspects of life. His career has been dedicated to moving healthcare towards a human centered approach, on a policy as well as a personal level.
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