TED英语演讲:你为生命的终结做好准备了吗 演说题目:你为生命的终结做好预备了吗? 演说者:Judy MacDonald What would be a good end of life? 什么是一个生活美妙的结尾? And Im talking about the very end. 我所说的是最终的结尾 Im talking about dying. 我所说的是死亡 We all think a lot about how to live well. 我们都在想如何更好的生活 Id like to talk about increasing our chances of dying well. 而我想要谈的是,如何更美妙地告辞人生 Im not a geriatrician. 我并不是老年病学家 I design reading programs for preschoolers. 我为学前班的孩子设计阅读课程 What I know about this topic 我对这个话题的理解 comes from a qualitative study with a sample size of two. 一个定性的讨论,其中有两个案例 In the last few years, I helped two friends 在过去的几年,我关心两个好伴侣 have the end of life they wanted. 以他们想要的方式,完毕了他们的生命 Jim and Shirley Modini spent their 68 years of marriage Jim 和 Shirley Modini度过了他们68年的婚姻生活 living off the grid on their 1,700-acre ranch 生活在远离城镇的,1,700英亩的牧场里 in the mountains of Sonoma County. Sonoma 县的山区 They kept just enough livestock to make ends meet 他们喂养了仅仅是能养活他们自己的家禽 so that the majority of their ranch would remain a refuge 所以这大局部的牧场变成了避难所 for the bears and lions and so many other things 给熊,狮子和其他的动物 that lived there. 生活在那里 This was their dream. 这正是他们的梦想 I met Jim and Shirley in their 80s. 我在两个老人年迈八十的时候遇见他们 They were both only child