The Lost Art of Dying: Ethical Considerations in Facing Our Mortality

The January Series is a FREE 15-day lecture series that takes place each year to cultivate thought and conversations about important issues of the day.

Dr. Lydia Dugdale is an internal medicine primary care doctor and a medical ethicist. She’s also a Columbia University professor and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. In her new book, The Lost Art of Dying, Dugdale offers insight and thoughtful guidance on how to die well. She guides readers to recover their sense of finitude, confront fears, accept how bodies age, develop meaningful rituals, and involve communities in end-of-life care.