We will be welcoming Dr. Lydia Dugdale to discuss the art of dying well and the debate over assisted dying. Dr. Dugdale will lecture on the question Should assisted dying be legal? She’ll present arguments for and against. Following her lecture, we’ll turn to roundtable discussion of the hard questions in end-of-life ethics:

• Where are the moral lines in medical-assisted dying?

• Should it be legal, and what guidelines should govern it?

• What medical and technological interventions should be present at the deathbed? 

We look forward to discussion on this topic — one of the most challenging and complex. If you’re an MIT community member, we warmly welcome you to attend! RSVP required at this form: https://forms.gle/ppXq5PfZpXCjjgfS9

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Dr Dugdale’s scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, the role of aesthetics in teaching ethics, moral injury, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death.