In these modern times, swift catastrophic final illness is the exception.
For many people, death comes only after a long medical struggle with an incurable but chronic illness or results from the multiple debilities of very old age. Death is certain, but the timing isn’t. Everyone struggles with this uncertainty – with how, and when, to accept that the time has come.
This session, with intensive care specialist Professor Charlie Corke, will explore questions such as: how we can gracefully prepare and accept, when it has become almost impossible to be sure when we are dying and when we are simply ill; and how do we need to change in order to use amazing medical technology more wisely?
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8 July, 6pm
Bradley Forum, University of South Australia
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