Death And Dying: An Approach From The Humanities

Date: 30 October, Wednesday| Time: 13:00 -14:00 | Venue: Ngee Ann Kongsi (NAK) Auditorium, Academia, SGH

Speaker: Prof Rajeev Shridhar Patke

Programme Details:

This talk shares what an immersion in humanistic studies brings up that might be useful for caregivers, medical practitioners, and anyone who seeks to help and ameliorate the state of mind with which not just the sick and the dying, but all of us, might approach a sense impending mortality. In short, this is a talk about what might be meant by a “good death.”

Learning Outcomes:

• To equip any listener with a better sense of how we might meet our own personal mortality; 
• To help us help those medically termed as "terminal" with a better reconcilement with death.
  

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