2024 January 29 (Mon)
5:30 pm
| Harvard Countway Library Floor 1, Rooms 102 & 103, 10 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115
Film Screening: PLAN 75 (2022, Directed by Chie Hayakawa) followed by panel discussion
Moderator: SARA PRESS , SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Panelist: SUSAN NATHAN, Geriatrician and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician and Director of the My Life, My Story program, VA Boston Healthcare System
Panelist: JEREMY NOBEL, MD, MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School
Panelist: KAREN THORNBER , Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Panelist: MAUD JANSEN, MD/PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion at 7:30pm.
Plot
Plan 75 is a dystopian film that explores a possible future in which the Japanese government incentivizes adults over 75 into voluntary euthanasia. The film explores the Japan's challenges with the limits of social welfare for its aging population and will be followed by a panel of scholars and medical practitioners to discuss the ethical dilemmas raised in the film.
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