Alison Killing---There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help.

Killing thoroughly explains that death is such an odd and uncomfortable subject for so many people that they are unwilling to consider how truly scary dying in sterile places such as hospitals and being there long term can be, and how that should be changed. She tries to use a lot of history and real life experiences to relate to the audience, and show them how things should be fixed, such as comparing a beautiful hospital built in 1419 to a normal hospital of the 21st century. When she speaks about herself and her own experiences, she is more informal with the audience. But when she tells stories of history and general facts, she tends to be more formal and straightforward. The theme of her speech is that the whole idea of sterile and uncomfortable hospitals needs to change so that the people occupying them can feel better about their surroundings. Many people spend much of their time in a hospital themselves or because of relatives and know the environment, as hospitals are generally like this all over the developed world, and changing the way hospitals feel is important to changing how people see them. Helping develop the ideas of the future is left to students in education, and ideas like this are for them to change.
Ted Talk