December – Dying with Dignity
No Civic Buzz in November. Mark your calendar now for Tuesday December 3rd for an important discussion on Dying with Dignity. Our speaker, Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, Director of the Health Law Institute and Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline University School of Law is a world-renowned expert on legal issues affecting end-of-life medical care.
He has over 130 publications and is coauthor of The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking. He works to calibrate the balance between individual liberty and public health in the context of end-of-life medical care and will discuss the Minnesota End of Life Option Act.