What We Can Learn from Near Death Choices
HUFF POST TEDTALK Weekends: If Your Life Were to End Today...
December 1, 2012
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This is actually the first video of five, in the Huffington Post TEDTALKS series for the 1st week of December, posted today. And it is my 2nd Gift of Christmas to you all.
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TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk. This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below. Become part of the conversation!
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Few of us come face-to-face with death in such a clear and present way as Ric Elias, who was on board Flight 1549 when it crash-landed on New York's Hudson River four years ago. Ric (the CEO of Red Ventures) and everyone on board, expected to die on impact. And when the now famous Captain Sulley safely landed the plane, Ric was given a new lease on life, and also a new perspective on it.
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Ric's TEDTalk has proven so compelling, because he answers the question so many of us have: When my life draws to a close, will I look back with regret? Or satisfaction? What will I wish I had done? What will matter most? It's a gift, in some ways, to come so close to death, because it teaches us something essential about how to live. And this is a theme that many TED speakers have explored... What can we learn from near-death choices? Artists and athletes, gamers and monks have all tackled this question from different angles...