The Royal Society of Medicine is pleased to host an event presenting the analysis and recommendations of the new Lancet Commission on the value of death. This is a multidisciplinary, multi-year and international collaboration to rebalance the fractured relationships of medicine and society with death and dying.
Join Lancet Commissioners, along with a range of external experts, journalists, healthcare providers, patients, and policy-makers to discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities surrounding society and medicine’s responses to death, dying, grief, and care for patients, families, and communities.
A live stream of this event is available. To book onto the live stream, please click here.
Meeting objectives:
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Understand the challenges relating to how people live, die, and grieve globally
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Explore the broader contexts of society’s and medicine’s relationships to death and dying, including climate change, assisted dying, COVID-19, and efforts to achieve immortality
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Appreciate the role we all play in shaping the meanings of death and dying, how people and healthcare systems can collectively improve what people experience at the end of life and in grief
The meeting organisers of this event would like to offer 20 bursary places on a first come, first served basis for delegates from low and middle income countries. If you are working or living in a country that meets this criteria, please email palliative@rsm.ac.uk to apply for your bursary place. When applying, please include a piece of identification that verifies the country you are living or working in.
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