Death is behind closed doors in our society and is it time that it is at the forefront of discussion. We are all going to die but not always something we plan or prepare for in life. This forum will help to demystify death and get us talking openly about what traditionally has been a pretty taboo subject. Death is a subject that we shy away from and yet we openly talk about sex. As an intelligent society, surely we can work openly to create policy around euthanasia and life choices.

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AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FESTIVAL EVENT
Date: Tuesday, August 3 from 5.30pm Live Broadcast
Venue: The Bradman Theatre at the National Convention Centre
Death is behind closed doors in our society and is it time that it is at the forefront of discussion.
We are all going to die but not always something we plan or prepare for in life.
This forum will help to demystify death and get us talking openly about what traditionally has
been a pretty taboo subject. Death is a subject that we shy away from and yet we openly talk
about sex. As an intelligent society, surely we can work openly to create policy around euthanasia
and life choices.
Moderator: Paul Barclay from ABC Radio National’s Australia Talks
Paul Barclay - Host of ABC Radio National Big Ideas
Australia Talks is a daily national talkback program. It’s a forum for the discussion
of a specific topic with the involvement of expert guests, You can hear the views
of people in capital cities, provincial towns, on farms and in remote communities
responding to a broad range of issues – everything from politics, economics, social
and international affairs to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.
Panel Speakers:
Dr Philip Nitschke, Exit International For more than a decade, Dr Philip Nitschke
has been the face of the voluntary euthanasia debate both in Australia and around
the world. Philip came to prominence after becoming the first doctor in the world to
administer a legal lethal voluntary injection to a terminally ill patient in the Northern
Territory in 1996. He is Director of Australia’s largest VE infor- mation / advocacy
non-profit ExitInternational.net. Philip holds a PhD in applied physics from Flinders
University and is a graduate of the University of Sydney Medical School. Philip divides
his time between Australia, the US and UK.
Associate Professor Patrick McArdle, Campus Dean Australian Catholic University
(Sign- adu) Dr Patrick McArdle has a PhD in practical theology and postgraduate
qualifications in moral theology and education. His research and publications also
encompass applied ethics, theological anthropology, euthanasia and education. He
has extensive aca- demic and applied research experience in wide ranging areas of
public policy and has served in senior policy roles in federal and state governments.
Dr Scott Blackwell, Palliative Care Australia president elect and a GP who works in
community palliative care and residential aged care
·Dr Kaarin Anstey, Director of the Ageing Research Unit at the Australian National
University’s Centre for Mental Health Research, ANU
Contact
Deputy Director – ASF Limited – Eleanor Gates-Stuart Eleanor.gates-stuart@asflimited.com.au
02 6205 0588
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