Thaddeus Mason Pope

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Professor Pope Presentations on VSED
This page collects materials (slides, videos, and handouts) from conferences where I have made presentations on VSED.

World Federation of Right to Die Societies (Nov. 4, 2022)
VSED PPT Handout - WFRTD Societies (Nov. 4, 2022)
Maine Health (October 18, 2022)
VSED PPT Handout - Maine Health (Oct. 18, 2022)
AAHPM (February 11, 2022)
VSED PPT Handout - Annual Assembly of Hospice & Palliative Care (Feb. 11, 2022)
Completed Life Initiative (October 21, 2021)
Pope - Completed Life Initiative PPT Handout (Oct. 21, 2021)
End of Life Choices New York (September 30, 2021)
Pope - End of Life Choices NY PPT
Arizona Bioethics Network (June 2021)
Pope - Arizona Bioethics Network (June 16, 2021) PPT Handout
Completed Life Initiative (October 2020)
In early October 2020, Dr. David Gruenwald and I made a two-hour presentation on VSED and SED by AD in the sixth session of the Completed Life Initiative conference series.

Completed Life Initiative Brochure 2020
Washington State Medical Association (September 2019)
Physician/Advanced Practitioner Support for Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking, WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION & WASHINGTON END OF LIFE COALITION, Seattle, Washington (Sept. 13-14, 2019).

Brochure for WSMA & EOLWA
Harvard Medical School Bioethics Conference (April 2019)
Pope PPT - Harvard Annual Bioethics (April 2019)
ICEL3 in Ghent, Belgium (March 2019)
VSED Divulged: Legal, Ethical, and Clinical Status of the Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking Exit Option (ICEL3) (March 8, 2019)
Hemlock Society of San Diego (November 2018)
Hemlock Society Avoiding Advanced Dementia (Nov. 18, 2018) Handout
Dying in the Americas in Henderson, Nevada (March 2018)
Pope - PPT Slides from DYING IN THE AMERICAS (Mar. 24, 2018)
Davidson College in North Carolina (April 2017)
https://vimeo.com/212769795

Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Clinical, Legal, Ethical, Religious, and Family Perspectives at Seattle University (October 2016)
Check out the proceedings from this world class, two-day conference on VSED.  The conference was hosted by Seattle University School of Law on October 14 and 15, 2016.

Through keynote addresses and panel discussions by clinicians, lawyers, ethicists, religious leaders, institutional administrators, and experienced family members, participants engaged in a wide range of challenging medical, legal, ethical, and caregiving issues about VSED:
  • Clinical findings: comfort and distress, duration, palliative supplements
  • Who uses VSED, for what reasons, in what circumstances
  • Narrative cases and family experiences
  • Legal questions: common law standing, statutory and regulatory inhibitions, permissible involvement of caregivers
  • Ethical questions: status of VSED re ‘suicide'; comparison with physician aid-in-dying and refusal of medically delivered nutrition & hydration; assistance from proxy decision makers
  • Religious and cultural perspectives
  • Dementia care: decision capacity, role of proxies, VSED by advance directive
  • Hospice and palliative care: normative-cultural compatibility, use in non-terminal situations
  • Institutional contexts: nursing home practice, abuse regulations, pre-admission understandings

VSED Conference Agenda (Oct. 2015)
Pope - slides from Seattle VSED conference (Oct. 2016)