{"id":56654,"date":"2017-02-22T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=56654"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:55:33","slug":"end-of-life-forum-discusses-options-for-the-terminally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/22\/end-of-life-forum-discusses-options-for-the-terminally-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Life forum discusses options for the terminally ill"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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As Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s population ages, what ought to be done at the end of life is becoming\u00a0a matter of great concern to the state. To explore the options available to those with a\u00a0terminal illness, the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa Public Policy Center<\/a> and the Matsunaga\u00a0Institute for Peace<\/a> are sponsoring a moderated panel discussion on February\u00a023 on the topic, End of Life: Public Policy for the Terminally Ill. The forum, which\u00a0begins at 7 p.m. at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Capitol Auditorium, includes Attorney General\u00a0Douglas Chin<\/strong>, Charles Miller and John Radcliffe of Compassion and Choices\u00a0Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a>, and Craig Nakatsuka and Joy Yadao of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s Partnership for Appropriate\u00a0and Compassionate Care<\/a>. The panel will be moderated by Judge Michael Broderick\u00a0(retired), the president and CEO<\/abbr> of the YMCA<\/abbr> of Honolulu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Advances in medicine mean that more local residents are caring for relatives in\u00a0their final days and are facing difficult decisions about their illnesses and death.\u00a0Furthermore, 100 million Americans have a chronic disease, and a growing number of\u00a0these chronically-ill people are asking for the right to take their own lives. The intent of\u00a0the forum is to identify the various positions, and in the process consider the\u00a0consequences of alternative public policies for the terminally ill in an environment of\u00a0tolerance and respect.<\/p>\n

The panel discussion is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The panel speakers<\/h2>\n

Michael Broderick is the former director of the judiciary’s Center for\u00a0Alternative Resolution<\/a>, the former administrative director of the State Courts, and a\u00a0former family court judge where he presided over more than 10,000 cases. <\/p>\n

Douglas Chin earned his law degree\u00a0from the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and was unanimously confirmed as state attorney general in 2015.<\/p>\n

Charles Miller is a retired oncologist, board certified in internal medicine,\u00a0medical oncology, and hematology and is one of the founding members of the Physician\u00a0Advisory Council for Aid in Dying for Compassion and Choices.<\/p>\n

Craig Nakatsuka recently retired after 34 years of service\u00a0from Kaiser Medical Group<\/a> and has spent the past decade in the work of long-term care\u00a0and palliative care.<\/p>\n

John Radcliffe, stage 4 terminal cancer patient and advocate for medical aid in\u00a0dying in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, is co-founder and President emeritus of Capitol Consultants of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> and has been an active\u00a0lobbyist at the state and national level for forty years.<\/p>\n

Joy Yadao is a registered nurse with more than 25 years of experience in nursing\u00a0leadership and in the specialties of pediatrics, oncology, case management, end-of-life\u00a0care, advanced care planning and healthcare quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The forum will examine the various positions and\u00a0consequences of alternative public policies for the terminally ill in an environment of\u00a0tolerance and respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[301,330,540,9],"class_list":["post-56654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-matsunaga-institute-for-peace","tag-public-policy-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56654"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78892,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56654\/revisions\/78892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}