Aging, Death, and the Quest for Immortality

8th Annual Summer Conference

July 19-21, 2001

Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL

Aging and Age-Based Rationing of Life-Sustaining Health Care - John Kilner, PhD
Ethical Challenges in Caregiving: Does Gray Hair Cause Grey Answers? Ethical Issues in an Aging Population - Robert Orr, MD
Palliative Care - Jacqueline Cameron, MD
Why No One Wants to Suffer or Die in America: A Christian Alternative - Stanley Hauerwas, PhD
Extended Lives in Hope and Despair - Stephen Post, PhD

Long-Term Care - Carol Taylor, RN, PhD
Ethics Challenges as Death Approaches: A Duty to Die? - Wesley Smith, JD
Ethics Challenges as Death Approaches: Assisted Suicide: Offering Aging and Disabled People A Way Out? - Mark Pickup
Caring for Yourself, Caring for Others: The Ultimate Balance - Diann Uustal, RN, EdD

The Virtues of Talk Therapy for the Aging - Stephen P. Greggo, PsyD
Neuropsychology and the Aging - Robert W. Evans, PhD
Successful Aging: Living the End of Life to the Glory of God - John Dunlop, MD
Equating Medical Professionalism with Entropy: Confronting a Postmodern Ethos and Lost Paradigms through Education - Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
John Paul II and the Meaning of Suffering - J. Daryl Charles, PhD
Death and the Doctrine of Man - Karl Shields, MA
In Search of the Philosopher's Clone, Thoughts on Embryonic Stem Cell Technology - William P. Cheshire Jr., MD
Different or the Same? Ethical Issues Surrounding Disability - Linda Treloar, PhD, RN
Devaluation of the Elderly in Contemporary Society - Samuel Hensley, MD and Rev. Frank Ward
Altruism and Organ Donation: What Does Love Have to Do with It? - Jennifer Lahl, BSN, MA
Life-or-Death Decisions - Morse H. Tan, JD (cand. 2001)

Serious but Not Terminal - Brad F. Mellon, PhD
End-of-Life Curve - Daryl Sas, PhD
Honoring Ethical Decisions in Caring for Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease - Alma Labunski, PhD
Elder Abuse: Prevention within the Family Context - Mary Hibbert, PhD
The Church and Ministry Through/To the Aging - Gregory Waybright, PhD
A Delight to Die? The Glory of God in the Death of His Own - Rev. R. Geoffrey Brown, PhD