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.

Watch the livestream at White Lake Community Library 12-30-1:30pm. Hot beverages will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your lunch. You can also watch the lecture from your own device beginning at 12:30pm. Visit https://calvin.edu/january-series/ for instructions on accessing the lecture from home.

The January Series is a FREE 15-day lecture series that takes place each year at Calvin University and aims to cultivate deep thought and conversations about important issues of the day in order to inspire cultural renewal and make us better global citizens.