Let death be what takes us, Dr. B. J. Miller has written, not a lack of imagination.

As a palliative care physician, he brings a design sensibility to the matter of living

until we die.

And he's largely redesigned his own physical presence after an accident at college left

him without both of his legs and part of one arm.

B. J. Miller's wisdom extends to how we can all reframe our relationship to our imperfect

bodies and all that we don't control.

There's a big difference between the things that happen to you that are forces larger

than you.

I can yield to Mother Nature.

I mean, I can yield to 11,000 volts.

That's a very different prospect than is shutting down your imagination or rolling over

altogether.

So there's a challenge to our sense of proportionality and all this.

And I've loved that theme.

That word proportionality comes up for me a lot, trying to right size myself.

I'm Chris to tip it and this is on being.

B. J. Miller is the executive director of the Zen hospice project in San Francisco.

And he's an assistant clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San

Francisco.

As self-described suburban boy, he moved all over the U.S. growing up with his family until

he attended Princeton.

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