Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing

http://www.ted.com When Ramona Pierson was 22, she was hit by a drunk driver and spent 18 months in a coma. At TEDxDU she tells the remarkable story of her recovery -- drawing on the collective skills and wisdom of a senior citizens' home.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

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[Lundix]

@lightandbeautiful Have I missed something? How is this relevant? And what is this agenda you speak of?

[TheCheekyDarkie]

it was okay, to short, would of liked to hear about the people who helped

[ordnascrazy]

(Esperanto) Tiu ĉi rakonto estas tre kortuŝa. Estas nekredebla kiom da personoj ekzistas, kiuj dediĉas sian vivon al aliuloj. Dankon al ili!

[interstellarwonder]

@abu0ibraheem muslims are always looking for excuses to kill people, just like christians.

[abu0ibraheem]

@interstellarwonder Muslims are not hatefull. This is what the western "jewish" media claims.

[00002797]

This TED video is amazing!!

[interstellarwonder]

@abu0ibraheem fuck off 'peaceful ' muslim, eveyone knows muslims hate everyone, which is good, because it makes me know that god is hateful, ohh yeah ,there is no god, or else muslims wouldn't be so hateful

[FLAlVlE]

I don't care about Islam or a muslim in the comments who seems to be trying to convince an atheist of his views in life. I also don't care about that same atheist trying to disprove the existence of some god. If you two want to have your retarded debate go to some random forum in the corner of the internet somewhere so that you don't fill this entire comments section with your meaningless conversation. And if you have to have this debate on youtube then send private messages to each other.

[LadyJennivieve]

Gotta watch out for those monster laundry baskets LOL.

[abu0ibraheem]

@GeekProdigyGuy thank you. please have a look at Quran.