2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE
| OPENING PLENARY – The Story of Law Reform in Canada Joseph Arvay, James Cowan, and Mona Gupta PLENARY 2 – Empirical Studies: What Do We Know About End of Life Decisions Making Around the World? CONCURRENT SESSION 1 End-of-Life Issues in Canadian Prisons (Panel) Dutch GPs’ Views on Good Dying and Euthanasia The Perils of POLST To Live and Let Die. Withholding and Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment in Argentina: From Therapeutic to Judicial Obstinacy Adolescent Capacity to Refuse Life Prolonging Medical Intervention and Transformative Experience Challenges in End of Life Care and Medical Assistance in Dying: Towards a Relational Ethics Approach The Shift Away from ‘Suicide’ Talk: Incorporating Voices of Experience “Rock, Paper, Scissors” – Ideologies of End of Life Care for Older People in Hospital The Cultural Construction of End of Life Issues in Biomedicine: Anthropological Perspectives PLENARY 3 – Palliative Care and its Relationship with Medical Aid in Dying CONCURRENT SESSION 2 Updating the Evidence about Physician-Assisted Dying and the Impact on Vulnerable Groups (Panel) Twenty Years of Experience with Physician-Assisted Death in Oregon Against Advance Directives for MAID Advance Directives Requesting Euthanasia in the Netherlands Should Medical Input be Required in Completion of Advance Care Directives? Should Assisted Dying Require the Consent of a High Court Judge? Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatment from Patients in Vegetative or Minimally Conscious States in England and Wales Fine Lines and Dr. Syme: Intention, Palliation and Death Causation in Regulation and Law Mapping Out the Implementation of Bill C-14 on Health Care Providers in British Columbia Ethical Issues: MAID and its Provision in Rural and Remote Settings Law Reform and Improving the Last Stages of Life: Preliminary Research Findings from Ontario Consultations PLENARY 4A – Stopping/Not Starting Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Issue of Unilateral Decision Making PLENARY 4B – Palliative Sedation PLENARY 5 – Legal Status of Assisted Dying CONCURRENT SESSION 3 Medically Assisted Deaths on Vancouver Island – The First Year Experiences of Patients and their Support People with Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada Reasons for Requesting Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada Carter vs. Rasouli – Why was One Supreme Court Decision Right and the Other Wrong? Conversations About CPR – Professional Judgement or Autonomy? Medical Futility Dispute Resolution Options in the United States: Law and Ethics Fundamentals The Evolving Role of Palliative Sedation in the Era of MAiD Reframing Hope: A Rehabilitation Perspective on End of Life Care (Panel) Consensus View on Assisted Dying for Dementia: A Delphi Study on Key Issues and Concerns Advance Decisions To Refuse Treatment: Explaining Low Uptake In England And Wales The Notion Of Advance Directives: Headway Or Hazard? Voluntary Assisted Dying: The Proposed Framework For Victoria, Australia CONCURRENT SESSION 4 A Year in Review: The Who, When, Why and How of Requests for Medical Aid in Dying in Quebec Regulating MAID: The Medical Regulatory Perspective Considering MAiD in Severe, Refractory Mental Illness Are Concerns About Irremediableness, Vulnerability, or Competence Sufficient to Justify Excluding Psychiatric Patients from MAID? Psychiatrists’ Views on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Psychiatric Patients: A Qualitative Study The Under-Examined End-of-Life Option: Hastening Death by Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) Medical Assistance in Dying and Incarcerated Persons – Special Considerations? Medical Aid in Dying for Mature Minors: Re-interpreting the Problem of Decisional Capacity Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Caregivers’, and Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives of Advance Care Planning for End-of-Life Care Advance Care Planning in Australia: Aspirational or Practical? The Influence of Doctors in the Australian Assisted Dying Debate The Human Rights Implications of the Blanket Ban on Assisted Suicide in England and Wales Trying and Dying: Are Some Wishes Better? PLENARY 6 – Pressure Points for Eligibility for Medical Assistance in Dying (Mature Minors, Mental illness as Sole Underlying Condition, Advance Requests) |