Re-valuing death: The Lancet Commission on the value of death

Join The Lancet Commission and a multidisciplinary host of speakers at this wide-ranging exploration on the relationship we have with death and dying today.

The nature of death has changed dramatically in the past 50 years. The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death thinks that society and health care have an unhealthy relationship with death, increasing suffering by attempts to delay it. 

This is the first time the Lancet has commissioned such a report and it sits at the intersection between culture, philosophy, medicine and religion. It has a global focus and concludes with a series of key recommendations about how medicine and wider society may build a healthier relationship with death, a central question for the 21st century as we grapple with demographic changes and climate change.

Meeting objectives:

• To appreciate the current relationship society and healthcare have with death and dying
• To understand global variations and the philosophical, economic and relational aspects to death and dying
• To learn about how individuals, communities, health care services and society can begin to move forward and revalue death

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