Apr 19
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Zoom

Join VOYCE in a thought-provoking, super-sized discussion about the documentation and ethical considerations surrounding end-of-life planning. Leading the discussion are two experts on end-of-life planning from two disciplines: law and ethics. This webinar will provide answers to questions and a well-rounded perspective on approaching this intricate reality in participants’ professional careers and life.

The cost is $25.00 to attend this presentation. CEUs available for Social Workers and Administrators. CLEs available (1.8 total hours, 1.8 ethics hours) for legal professionals.

Presenters

Paul Gantner

Paul Gantner is an owner of Amen, Gantner, and Capriano, Your Estate Matters, LLC. Mr. Gantner is a member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. He is licensed to practice law in Missouri and Illinois and is an accredited attorney for the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims for veterans’ benefits before the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In 2022, he was recognized as one of the St. Louis Business Journals’ 40 Under 40. 

Harold Braswell

Harold Braswell is an associate professor of healthcare ethics at Saint Louis University. His research develops a disability studies approach to bioethical topics at the end of life, with a particular focus on euthanasia. Drawing on the history of medicine and medical anthropology, he argues for the importance of studying these topics in the particular policy contexts that shape them. This goal informed his book The Crisis of US Hospice, which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019, as well as his current book project, Inhospitable: How Housing Discrimination Shapes the Way We Die. In addition to his scholarship, he is a recent graduate of Saint Louis University’s School of Social Work and is currently practicing as a psychodynamic psychotherapist. He is interested in the relationship between social work and bioethics, as well as the potential relevance of psychoanalysis to both those fields, and welcomes further engagement on those topics.