One More Day | Ananth Mahadevan | TEDxNM College

[Music] During the Second World War in the German concentration camp at Owitz, there was a young lady by the name of Ella Blumenthal. She was facing the inevitable, the gas chamber and a painful death. Her little niece Roma walked up to her one day and said, "Why don't we just fling ourselves against the electrified fence so that death comes in an instant and we spare ourselves the torture and the pain?" Ella took her little knees close to her and said, "My dear, can we wait for one more day?" And Roma said ...