SALON LUITPOLD | Darf ich über mein späteres dementes Ich verfügen? | Medizinethik aktuell

In the organizer's words:

Current medical ethics: May I dispose of my later demented self?

Background: More and more people want to use a living will to prevent themselves from being kept alive by medical care (or even just by proactive nutrition) in a state of advanced dementia. Critics deny that such advance directives from healthier days have any authority if the patients concerned appear to be full of life. What are the arguments on both sides and how good are they?

Bettina Schöne-Seifert, physician and philosopher, Senior Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Münster. She was a member of the National Ethics Council for many years. Her areas of work include numerous current issues in medical ethics as well as questions of ethical reasoning.

Heika Eidenschink, psychologist, psychotherapist and executive coach, has set up her own coaching training institute and has helped numerous people in individual settings, workshops and groups to face key life issues and thus overcome crises.