Why has assisted suicide become such a powerful temptation in our time? What does its growing acceptance reveal about the way we understand suffering, dignity, medicine, and the human person? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we recover a positive vision of what it means to die well?
Join Amanda Achtman, founder of the Dying to Meet You Project and Ethics Director for Canadian Physicians for Life, for a thought-provoking live lecture exploring these questions and more. Together, we’ll consider why assisted suicide has gained such cultural momentum, the assumptions about suffering and human dignity that lie beneath the debate, and how we can respond by offering something more hopeful: a vision of compassionate care, solidarity, and human flourishing at the end of life.
When: Thursday, October 15th, 7:00 - 9:00pm EDT
Where: 120 French Road, Rochester, NY | Online via Zoom
Amanda Achtman is a Canadian writer, speaker, and advocate, and a leading critic of her country's medical assistance in dying program. She served as the senior advisor to a member of parliament working to prevent the expansion of euthanasia to persons living with a disability or mental illness. Passionate about promoting intergenerational solidarity and a culture of encounter, she travels across her country and worldwide engaging people in life's big questions of suffering, death, meaning, and hope. Amanda currently works with Canadian Physicians for Life on ethics education, teaches teaches the "Catholic Bioethics at the Middle and End-of-Life" course in St. Bernard's Graduate Certificate in Catholic Bioethics program, and is a contributing writer at Public Discourse. She is also the founder of a project of cultural renewal called "Dying to Meet You."
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