Making Sense of Death with Dignity | Prof. Farr Curlin

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on November 14, 2019.

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Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religionassociated 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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0:00.0	Yes, greetings from Carolina.
0:09.0	No laughter there.
0:11.0	But I learned that people here in South Carolina,
0:15.0	some folks think that University of South Carolina
0:18.0	is the first state university,
0:27.3	but we don't believe that's true, but this is a subject for another debate.
0:32.9	I'm going to be, does this work, do you know?
0:34.2	Well, it's fine.
0:35.8	It does not.
0:36.3	That's right. I'll just pull this out, and I'll. It does not. That's right.
0:41.6	I'll pull this out and I'll go back for it.
0:42.0	That's fine.
0:52.7	If I do my job, I'm going to speak for about 25 minutes and then I wanted to leave plenty of time for us to be in dialogue together.
0:55.9	So please, if you have a question, think about it, jot it down,
1:00.0	give yourself a note on your phone or something to remember it. There's a lot of different directions we could take the conversation and so I want to make sure I'm responsive to what
1:05.3	you're interested in. But as Dr. Tolson said, I practice palliative medicine at Duke University, and specifically palliative medicine in Durham, North Carolina.
1:19.4	And not long ago, I was asked to see a patient in the emergency room of one of our hospitals.
1:24.6	And the patient, who I would call Mr. Roberts,
1:28.3	had advanced dementia.
1:32.3	He had not spoken in three years.
1:35.3	And he was brought to the hospital by his brother and his niece,
1:39.3	who for several years had cared for the patient at home.
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