7th Annual Conference on Human Dignity and Health Science

The 7th Annual Healthcare Conference on Human Dignity and Health Science will examine the ethics of advanced technology applied to the end of life. The many facets of death are explored by leading practitioners and ethicists including: the mystery of death, determining the moment of death, partial brain death, telling truth to the dying, euthanasia, ordinary and extraordinary means to prolong life, allowing a person to die, proxy consent, persistent vegetative state and advanced dementia, pain and dying, and palliative hospice care.

How much technology is replacing the dying person’s precious moments of personal relationship? Does advanced technology deny this relationship closure and opportunity for spiritual growth? Is technology applied to stave off impending death only because of a fear to die? What role does the doctor play in offering technology to a futile situation and what right does the patient have to be offered advanced techniques? Should the advancement of medicine be reason to offer new and advanced technologies without specific evidence of success? Does a patient have a right to choose to die? How does palliative care support the dignity of the person? These are a few of the questions to be explored in the 7 th Annual Healthcare Conference on Human Dignity and Health Science, Ethics of Technology and the End of Life: Hope or Futility.

The conference is open to the public including healthcare professionals and healthcare students. If you need special assistance to participate in this conference please contact the Integritas Institute for Ethics at 312.226.1880 or info@integritasinstitute.org.

Contact the institute for CEU information: info@integritasinstitute.org or 312.226.1880.