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Subject Talk Series on Life and Death Education 2021 : Walked through the valley of the novel coronavirus?
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Resilience in the Pandemic
| Date & Time: | 2021/11/21(Sunday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) |
| Description: | The SARS epidemic in 2003 made Hong Kong people become experts in the fight against the epidemic. At the end of 2019, another deadly virus struck. With the dexterity and adaptability of Hong Kong people, can Hong Kong speed up its recovery and get new learning? Will Hong Kong people's crisis awareness, mental spiritual health and social support be inspired? Friends facing serious illnesses are suffering from the epidemic prevention measures, which poses various challenges to caregivers. Through research reports and case sharing, discover the positive energy of Hong Kong people's perseverance and unyielding "resilience". |
The new normal of death
| Date & Time: | 2021/10/17 (Sunday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) |
| Description: | This pandemic has deepened our confrontation with death. In the past, we could always view death as "the death of others", occasionally a little sympathetic. But when death is everyday happening around you and me, the number of diagnosed cases and deaths learned from the media every day seems to have become a number. |
The sequelae of the novel coronavirus
| Date & Time: | 2021/9/19 (Sunday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) |
| Description: | The spread of the novel coronavirus has caused many unprecedented psychological anxieties. Hong Kong’s living space has always been narrow and crowded. For families that are usually not very harmonious, harassment and torture of each other like "beasts trapped". There will be many twisted psychological phenomena and suffering. Let us discuss how to ease these sequelae of the pandemic. |
Priority in fighting the pandemic: Who can control life and death?
| Date & Time: | 2021/8/15 (Sunday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) |
| Description: | Isolation of patients diagnosed with novel coronavirus to prevent virus spreading is legally reasonable. However, some elderly or dying patients are not able to receive care and visits from relatives, which makes this period particularly lonely or melancholy. What appropriate arrangements can be made on the balance among law, ethics and compassion? |
