Rethinking Mortality: Exploring the Boundaries between Life and Death lecture series

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

WNYC is a media partner of the “Rethinking Mortality: Exploring the Boundaries between Life and Death lecture series at the New York Academy of Sciences. The topic Confronting Mortality: Faith and Meaning across Cultures will be discussed  Wednesday, February 5.

This four-part series, moderated by Steve Paulson, journalist and Executive Producer of Wisconsin Public Radio's "To The Best Of Our Knowledge," will bring together leading experts at the crossroads of emergency medicine and neuroscience, psychology and law, anthropology and philosophy. They will explore this new frontier at the intersection of life and death, and its potential implications for how we understand and approach our mortality from scientific, ethical, and spiritual perspectives.