5:40 Opening Reception
Cash Bar and Delightfully Delicious Hors d’oeuvres
6:40-7:00 Welcome - Toni Van Pelt –
Robert Tapp - Symposium Chairman -“The Broad Range of Humanisms”
7:00-9:00 Opening Addresses: Toni Van Pelt - Moderator
“Do People Have the "Right to Die”?” - Ana Lita
"Stay" and the Secular Argument Against Suicide” - Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Body Not Soul: Encouraging Organ and Body Donation After Death” - Jamila Bey
Saturday: April 11, 2015
8:15 Arrival and Coffee
8:45-9:05 - Morning Remarks: Toni Van Pelt – Moderator
“The Paul Kurtz Legacy” - Robert Tapp
“The Human Prospect: A Neohumanist Perspective” ISHV’s Journal- Charles Murn
9:05-11:35 - Humanist Community Panel: Somasundaram Ilangovan - Moderator
“Respect Beyond the Grave” - Margaret Downey
“Secular Patients Graciously Accept Second Class Status” - Joseph Beck
Coping styles of believers and nonbelievers and a role for secular humanist chaplaincy - Ralph Lewis
A Different Kind of Immortality - Anne Klaeysen
11:35-12:20 - Saroja Ilangovan – Moderator
“Is Radical Life Extension Pseudoscientific Quackery, Medical Science, or a Moral Imperative?” - D.J. Grothe
12:20-12:35 - “ISHV Programs and Progress” Toni Van Pelt
12:35-1:35 - Lunch
1:35-3:35 - Legal Issues Around Death & Dying Panel: Marcia Cohen – Moderator
“How religious hospital policies could affect your end-of-life choices” - Lois Uttley
Keeping Clergy Away: Preventing Unwanted Religious Intrusion Through Advance Directives - Carol Ann Johnson and Debra Smietanski
3:35-4:20 - Stuart Jordan – Moderator
“Why does the concept of suicide cause such outrage?” - Janis Landis, president elect of Final Exit
4:20-5:15 “Dying with Dignity: Lessons from Stoicism & Co.” - Massimo Pigliucci
5:15-6:00 Group Discussion - led by Robert Tapp and DJ Grothe
To Be Announced: Evening Gathering Social
All things subject to change at any time without notice.
