Paliative care physician and Zen Hospice Project founder BJ Miller on what really matters at the end of life – one of the most moving and important TED talks of all time.

Parts of me died early on, and that’s something we can all say one way or another. I got to redesign my life around this fact, and I tell you it has been a liberation to realize you can always find a shock of beauty or meaning in what life you have left, like that snowball lasting for a perfect moment, all the while melting away. If we love such moments ferociously, then maybe we can learn to live well – not in spite of death, but because of it. Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.

Complement with Rilke on how befriending death helps us live more fully, a Zen master’s explanation of death to a child, and the late Sherwin Nuland on the art of dying, then revisit these intelligent and imaginative children’s books about making sense of death.