The Comparison Project will host a Community Interfaith Dialogue on death and dying, moderated by Norma Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Osteopathic Medicine at Des Moines University.

Panelists:
Robert Aubrey, Chaplain (retired), Unity Point & Broadlawns
David Kaufman, Rabbi, Temple B’nai Jeshurun
Yogesh Shah, Associate Dean, Des Moines University

February 11, 7 p.m.
Dunn’s Chapel, Iles Funeral Homes
2121 Grand Ave, DSM

How do the religions of the world understand death and dying? What rituals do they practice as preparation for death and in response to death? What effects has the “medicalization of death” had on these traditional understandings and practices? And what does the medical community need to know about traditional religious theologies and rituals related to death and dying?

The Comparison Project’s Community Interfaith Dialogue will explore these questions from the perspectives of Judaism, Catholicism, and Buddhism. Our moderator and panelists will focus particularly on the tensions between traditional theologies and rituals of death and the way in which death has increasingly become the domain of medicine and law. There will be ample time for questions from the audience.
More information on this event and others from The Comparison Project is available at https://comparisonproject.wp.drake.edu/.