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UBC presents free webinar on euthanasia physician-assisted suicide

By Patty Wellborn on October 15, 2014

Who: Dr. Keith Wilson, Department of Psychology, The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, will review the status of the euthanasia debate in Canada and summarize the NPCS findings.
What: Free webinar lecture, Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: Lessons from the Canadian National Palliative Care Survey (NPCS)
When: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 10 to 11 a.m.
Where:  RHS 129, Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, 1088 Discovery Ave., UBC Okanagan

The topics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are in the forefront of ethical health-care debate in Western society. Yet if these practices were legalized, questions remain about who would ask for them and why.

Dr. Keith Wilson of the Department of Psychology, Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, will present a free webinar lecture on the subject at UBC Okanagan, Tuesday, October 21, from 10 to 11 a.m., RHS 129, Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, 1088 Discovery Ave., Kelowna.

Wilson will review the status of the euthanasia debate and summarize findings of the Canadian National Palliative Care Survey, a multi-centre study of cancer patients who received palliative care and who expressed a desire for physician assistance in ending their lives.

To attend in person, via webinar or teleconference please register at:  http://palliativesurvey.eventbrite.ca

More information: http://ihlcdp.ok.ubc.ca

This free webinar, sponsored by the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, is open to the public. Pay parking is available on campus.

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E-mail: patty.wellborn@ubc.ca

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