Author Archives: Michael

Elsewhere in the palliverse – Weekend reads without Elissa

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Dear Friends,

Another week has passed and there is much to tell, but before we get into let spare a quick (and envious) thought for Elissa who can’t be with us to post today because she is in the middle of a well earned holiday.

Now down to business.

This clip from the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) describes a novel analogy for our selves that works neatly with a description of palliative care.

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A call for engagement: The International Conference of the End of Life 2014

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The ICEL conference for Law, Ethics, Policy and practice was hosted by Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane last week and was a notable event in a number of ways.  There was a stellar cast of plenary and concurrent speakers including such international experts as Prof Jocelyn Downie (@jgdownie), Prof Sheila McLean, and Dr Dale Gardiner and Dr Peter Saul and Prof Michael Ashby from Australia (check twitter for #2014ICEL for a complete run-down of the topics and issues over the two days, or http://bit.ly/ICELPhotos if you would rather just look at the pictures).  ICEL brought a multi-disciplinary focus to issues surrounding the end of life, and was not afraid to ask the big questions including the appropriateness of euthanasia, and who should be determining futility. 

ICEL images

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What’s in a name: Where did you get “Palliverse” from?

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I wonder how many people reading this have tried to come up with a catchy title for something.  Those random thoughts of: “If I was going to invent a breakfast cereal it would definitely be called… ” or our mental play around the name of a book that we would like to write where the pun will be just clever enough for us to get away with it; or our musing around a better name for a café that has all the potential (good coffee, the appropriate number of hipsters) but just not that vital title.

Hello my name is

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