{"id":640386,"date":"2013-01-28T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=68153"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:15:58","slug":"charity-tillemann-dick-shares-the-harrowing-story-of-living-between-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640386","title":{"rendered":"Charity Tillemann-Dick shares the harrowing story of living between life and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opEu4ZByXgE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At TEDMED 2010, opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick told the story of a revolutionary, life-changing surgery &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/charity_tilleman_dick_singing_after_a_double_lung_transplant.html\">a double lung transplant<\/a>. While a doctor had warned her that she would never sing again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/charity_tilleman_dick_singing_after_a_double_lung_transplant.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/e23190d5b2126039a9532710adf4fdd509a0115c_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>she revealed what it felt like to get her voice back. \u201cWe need to stop letting disease divorce us from our dreams,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, three years after her first transplant (she has since had another), Tillemann-Dick has given a second talk, \u201cDiscourses from the undead,\u201d filmed at <a href=\"http:\/\/tedxmidatlantic.com\/\">TEDxMidAtlantic<\/a> in December. In the talk above, she takes a stark look at death. sharing the vivid dreams that she had while she was in an unconscious state after her surgery &#8212; a time when her doctor said that survival was unlikely. Having \u201cspent many a night in death\u2019s guesthouse,\u201d Tillemann-Dick\u00a0 shares meaningful lessons that she believes to be from the next world, and gives thanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile [death\u2019s] sting is real, good can come from it,\u201d she says. \u201cDeath is as much a part of life as love, birth and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Far too few people are organ donors, and Tillemann-Dick attributes this not to disregard but to our lack of conversation about death. She says it\u2019s time to talk about death. 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While a doctor had warned her that she would never sing again, Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplantshe revealed what it felt like to get her voice back. \u201cWe need to stop letting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}