Webinar Materials
SEPTEMBER 2017 Webinar
Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Catholic Health Care Perspectives
Presented by Dr. Christopher De Bono, PhD, MDiv
What does Medical Assistance in Dying (AKA Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide) look like in Canada? And what does it mean for the Catholic Health Care community in Canada? And beyond? This workshop will provide the critical historical context on MAiD; but will focus primarily on the tensions as well as opportunities that MAiD represents in both acute and residential care settings. Clinical, ethical and pastoral theological lenses will be brought to bear on the phenomenon.
Program Objectives
Participants will:
- Learn what Medical Assistance in Dying means for Catholic health care in acute and residential care settings
- Learn why Medical Assistance is dying is both a tension and an opportunity
- Learn what practical steps a Catholic health system/Catholic sponsor can take in responding to Medical Assistance in Dying
- Learn what Medical Assistance in Dying looks like in Canada.
About the Presenter
Dr. Christopher De Bono, PhD, MDiv, is currently the Vice President of Mission, Ethics and Spirituality for Providence Health Care in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Roman Catholic pastoral/practical theologian with specialized clinical training in Spiritual Care and a post doc in Clinical/Organizational ethics. He has a history of over 15 years in frontline, middle and senior management roles in acute, community and mental health care. He has also taught as adjunct faculty and a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto (Emmanuel and St. Michael’s Colleges).
Committed to quality development in health care, he grew a spiritual care program by over 300% in a secular hospital at a time when most chaplaincy programs were being reduced. His PhD work considers the origins and future of clinical chaplaincy in mental health care in the context of Catholic sponsored health care. That PhD work was featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show “Ideas” in 2013 because of its links to the late Fr. Henri Nouwen. [cf. Genius Born of Anguish]
His research foci include ethics and mental health, the ethics of clients choosing to live at risk, the meaning of “professional” ethics in clinical practice, narrative practice, spirituality/religion in clinical care, and end of life care, especially grief counselling.
Materials
Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada
Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada-4 slides per page
Resources: NACC Webinar: Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Catholic Health Care Perspectives
Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute:
www.ccbi-utoronto.ca/links
Salt and Light Television:
saltandlighttv.org
Catholic Register:
www.catholicregister.org
President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Most Reverend Douglas Crosby, OMI Bishop of Hamilton Diocese
Statement by CCCB President on the recent approval of Bill C-14 legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide
His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Arch Bishop of Toronto Diocese
Statements and Resources
www.archtoronto.org/euthanasia
Sister Nuala Kenny, S.C., O.C., M.D., F.R.C.P. (C)
Rediscovering the Art of Dying
Father Michael Prieur, B.A., B.Th., S.T.L., S.T.D.
Mercy and Dying in a Post-Truth World (Guelph, Ontario - 2016)
Healthcare Ethics and Religious Guides:
Canada:
Canadian Health Alliance of Canada Health Ethics Guide (HEG)
United States: USCCB,
Ethical And Religious Directives (ERD) Archdiocesan Model of Ministry of Care and Companionship: Arch Diocese of Halifax and Yarmouth
www.halifaxyarmouth.org/care
CEH certificate
CEH certificate (PDF)
Webinar recordings
September 21 recording