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From the Ted Talk by Elaine Fong: My mother's final wish -- and the right to die with dignity


Unscramble the Blue Letters


If you could design your own death, what would the experience be like, and how would you want it to feel? I'm not a health care professional and I'm not an inventor of siencce. I'm a brand designer that creates experiences by cenotnnicg with human emotion. What I know from my mom's experience is that it gave us the tools to talk about death. By sinarhg her sotry with friends and strangers, I've learned there is a lot of curiosity behind this. By having the conversation, it hleps us to perhaps reframe or even rebrand dateh from feeling scary or desolate or bleak to re-imagining it as honest, noble and brave.

Open Cloze


If you could design your own death, what would the experience be like, and how would you want it to feel? I'm not a health care professional and I'm not an inventor of _______. I'm a brand designer that creates experiences by __________ with human emotion. What I know from my mom's experience is that it gave us the tools to talk about death. By _______ her _____ with friends and strangers, I've learned there is a lot of curiosity behind this. By having the conversation, it _____ us to perhaps reframe or even rebrand _____ from feeling scary or desolate or bleak to re-imagining it as honest, noble and brave.

Solution


  1. sharing
  2. helps
  3. science
  4. connecting
  5. death
  6. story

Original Text


If you could design your own death, what would the experience be like, and how would you want it to feel? I'm not a health care professional and I'm not an inventor of science. I'm a brand designer that creates experiences by connecting with human emotion. What I know from my mom's experience is that it gave us the tools to talk about death. By sharing her story with friends and strangers, I've learned there is a lot of curiosity behind this. By having the conversation, it helps us to perhaps reframe or even rebrand death from feeling scary or desolate or bleak to re-imagining it as honest, noble and brave.

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