Showing posts with label End-of-life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label End-of-life. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Debate on Physician Assisted Suicide
Here's a debate on Physician Assisted Suicide at higher than the normal level of discourse. Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
End-of-Life Planning, Roz Chast Edition
Please, please go read this wonderful and moving and honest cartoon about, among other things, why we don't do end-of-life planning, by longtime and beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Really, go read it.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
This piece from the Guardian lists the top 5 regrets of dying patients, as recorded over the years by an Australian palliative care nurse named Bronnie Ware. The five most-frequently heard regrets were these:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Look at the article for a bit more detail, or read Bronnie Ware's book. More importantly: be true to yourself, don't work so hard, say what you're feeling, look up those old friends, and smile.
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Look at the article for a bit more detail, or read Bronnie Ware's book. More importantly: be true to yourself, don't work so hard, say what you're feeling, look up those old friends, and smile.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Bioethicsy Stuff at Yale
Here are a few upcoming bioethical events at Yale, all of which are open to the public:
Our Jerome Medalie End-of-Life Issues group will hear Kenneth Goodman, PhD, FACMI, Bioethics Program Director and Co-Director University of Miami Ethics Programs, on January 10 at 5:30. Details here.
Our sister institution, Yale Med's Program for Biomedical Ethics, will hear Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, on "Fear and Loathing in Medical Research: How to Exploit the Poor," on January 10 at 5p.m. Details here.
Our Biotechnology in Agriculture group will hear Scott Deeter, President and CEO of Ventria Bioscience, on "Global Human Health Innovations From Plant Biotechnology" on January 12 at 4pm. Details here.
Our Perspectives on Aging group will hear Dr. Marianthe Grammas, Clinical Fellow, Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Yale School of Medicine on January 12 at 9 a.m. Details here.
Our Jerome Medalie End-of-Life Issues group will hear Kenneth Goodman, PhD, FACMI, Bioethics Program Director and Co-Director University of Miami Ethics Programs, on January 10 at 5:30. Details here.
Our sister institution, Yale Med's Program for Biomedical Ethics, will hear Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, on "Fear and Loathing in Medical Research: How to Exploit the Poor," on January 10 at 5p.m. Details here.
Our Biotechnology in Agriculture group will hear Scott Deeter, President and CEO of Ventria Bioscience, on "Global Human Health Innovations From Plant Biotechnology" on January 12 at 4pm. Details here.
Our Perspectives on Aging group will hear Dr. Marianthe Grammas, Clinical Fellow, Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Yale School of Medicine on January 12 at 9 a.m. Details here.
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