How to Die Well | Dr. Farr Curlin

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 2, 2021 at Yale University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion-associated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture.

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0:11.0	So I know that not all of you are going to practice medicine, but as we spoke about earlier,
0:18.2	all of you are going to die.
0:21.6	And I want us to think tonight about what it looks like to die well,
0:26.6	and particularly what does medicine have to do with creating the conditions
0:33.6	that make it possible for people to die well. Before I go further, I just want to mention that at Duke we have this very unusual program
0:43.3	that is, might be of interest to some folks, and I wanted to give you a chance to know about.
0:49.3	It's called the Theology Medicine and Culture Initiative, where we invite people who have vocations to health care,
0:56.0	but want deeper theological training to think about health care in a theological framework to come and
1:07.1	study with us at Duke's Divinity School. There are a couple ways to do that. Check us out if that's of interest at all.
1:14.1	So as we often do in the field of medicine,
1:16.6	I'm going to follow a case to help us work through the questions
1:21.6	about how we die well and what medicine has to do with that.
1:25.6	So Elsie's a 50-year-old carpenter.
1:28.5	He and his life are proud parents of twin daughters.
1:31.6	And one day Elsie's wife notices his eyes look yellow.
1:35.8	And Elsie goes to see his doctor.
1:39.9	Imaging reveals a tumor in the pancreas with multiple lesions in the liver. A procedure is done to place a stint in Elsie's bioluct.
1:48.0	We don't have to go into the medical details of that.
1:52.0	And biopsies confirm everyone's fears.
1:54.0	Elsie has metastatic pancreatic cancer.
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