How I Made Friends with Reality
Emily Levine
TED:
We were devastated when we learned that Emily Levine recently passed away. At TED2018 last April, the legendary philosopher-comic reflected on having stage IV lung cancer and why she didn't fear death.
This is what she had to say about the gift of life.
With her signature wit and wisdom, Emily Levine meets her ultimate challenge as a comedian/philosopher: she makes dying funny.
In this personal talk, she takes us on her journey to make friends with reality - and peace with death. Life is an enormous gift, Levine says: "You enrich it as best you can, and then you give it back."
In this personal talk, she takes us on her journey to make friends with reality - and peace with death. Life is an enormous gift, Levine says: "You enrich it as best you can, and then you give it back."
Emily Levine was born in Nashville, and brought up in Connecticut and Brooklyn. After graduating from Harvard, Levine's first job was dubbing spaghetti westerns in Rome.
On returning to Brooklyn she taught autistic children and joined an
improvisational comedy group called The New York City Stickball Team.
In the 1980s, Levine became a television writer/producer, working on shows such as Designing Women, Love and War and Dangerous Minds.
Levine was a radio commentator for WNYC in New York. She also has created two one-woman shows: It's Not You, It's the Universe: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too and Lose Weight and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Market
Her diagnosis with Stage IV lung cancer emerged as a theme in her humorous writing, including a blog for the Huffington Post and two blogs on her personal website entitled "The Yoy of Dying" and "Oracle Em."She created, directed, and starred in a film called Emily @ the Edge of Chaos.
In the 1980s, Levine became a television writer/producer, working on shows such as Designing Women, Love and War and Dangerous Minds.
Levine was a radio commentator for WNYC in New York. She also has created two one-woman shows: It's Not You, It's the Universe: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too and Lose Weight and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Market
She died at her home in Berkeley, California on February 3, 2019.
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