Bioethics — Death and the Law Seminar

The Center for American and International Law is sponsoring a comprehensive program entitled Bioethics — Death and the Law on June 24, 2005 in Plano, Texas (near Dallas).

The program’s advertising brochure describes the highlights of the program as follows:

• Provide hospital clinical ethics committees and the professionals who work with them a practical overview of the relevant ethical, medical, and legal considerations that apply to end-of-life decision making
• Conduct a detailed overview of the Texas Advance Directives Act
• Review the clinical, ethical, and legal differences among active and passive
  euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, voluntary cessation of eating and
  drinking, and terminal sedation
• Apply the ethical and legal principles to recurring clinical situations such as
  coma, vegetative state, and minimally conscious state
• Distribute copies of relevant hospital policies from all over the state