Talking about dying isn’t easy yet it’s a defining moment in our lives. How can we prepare ourselves and our loved ones? Where should we look to for guidance and advice – medicine, religion, the past? Join our guests to explore how their fields contribute to preparation for and understanding of dying.

Speakers
> Peter Harvey, Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Sunderland
> Iona Heath, GP and author of ‘Matters of Life and Death’
> Ruth Richardson, historian of medicine

Facilitator
> Joanna Moorhead, journalist

In support of the ‘Life Before Death’ exhibition.

Peter Harvey
I am Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK, from where I teach a web-based MA in Buddhist Studies. I am co-founder of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies and was its President from 2002 to 2006. I now edit its journal, ‘Buddhist Studies Review’. I have been a practising Buddhist since around 1971, and am a meditation teacher in the Theravāda Samatha Trust tradition.

Iona Heath
I have been a GP in Kentish Town since 1975. I was a member of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly and I have also been a member of the Human Genetics Commission. I have been a council member of the Royal College of General Practitioners since 1989 and I currently chair the College’s International Committee. I also chair the Ethics Committee of the ‘British Medical Journal’.

Ruth Richardson
I am a historian of medicine, with an interest in death and the body after death.

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