Events

Can We Talk?
A Converation with Eleanor Clift on Death, Politics, and Hope

Political commentator and author Eleanor Clift joins Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life Director Richard Payne, M.D. for a public conversation on issues surrounding how we die in America.

The event is Tuesday, March 24 in Goodson Chapel at Duke Divinity School. A reception and book signing begin at 4 p.m. The public discussion begins at 5 p.m.

What has become known as the Schiavo affair – the death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida in 2005 and the controversy that surrounded it – was a revelatory moment in American society. Eleanor Clift’s most recent book, “Two Weeks of Life,” chronicles the end of her husband’s battle with cancer, which coincided with the Schiavo Case.
 
The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life with support from Duke Divinity School (through the Richard A. Goodling Memorial Endowment Fund), the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.