Event: End of Life Decisions: Ethics in clinical practice, research and policy

April 9, 2009

End of Life Decisions: Ethics in clinical practice, research and policy
XI Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society
Seglarhotellet, Sandhamn
8-9 June 2009

Death is the most personal and yet impersonal event in our lives. Death is necessarily experienced alone, but we are not supposed to die on our own. It affects people around us. Staff, relatives and legislators all have an idea of how this death is to occur, with whom and how it is to be handled.

This is a multi disciplinary research symposium that concerns ethics at the end of life. End of life decisions have ethical, social and legal aspects. Is there a good death? Who should define what a good death is? What need is there for regulations? How do we conceptualize our hopes and fears of death and dying?

The first day of the symposium consists of 4 keynote lectures and plenary discussions. The second day of the symposium consists of 21 presentations in parallel sessions.

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