6-03: Christ at the End of Life: Palliative Care as an Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide

Saturday, February 25 | Period 6 | 2:45pm - 4:00pm 

How should Catholics respond to the increasing social acceptance of physician-assisted suicide? In this workshop we will review Catholic magisterial teaching concerning the end of life, the role of advance directives, and the importance of palliative care. The Catholic Church has a rich and compassionate tradition of how best to care for persons who are approaching the end of life: namely palliative care; and we will reflect together on how best to put this into practice.

Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB received his B.A. and M.D. from the University of Southern California.  He was board certified in Family Practice after internship/residency at UCLA.  He joined the Benedictine community of Saint Andrew's Abbey, making a solemn profession in 1985 and receiving priestly ordination in 1986. Fr. Dysinger studied theology at Oxford University, receiving his D.Phil. in Theology.  He has taught theology and biomedical ethics at a variety of institutions in southern California., including St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, where he is professor of moral theology, church history, and chair of the department of theology.

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