Queer Lecture Series: Death and Dying in the LGBTQ+ Community: Compassionate Care Before, During, and After Death

This lecture will focus on death and dying in the LGBTQ+ community, specifically advanced care planning and living wills, and why both are so critically important for members of the LGBTQ+ community to complete. Content includes laws regarding next of kin (who makes healthcare decisions once an individual becomes incapacitated and who makes decisions after death if the individual does not have an advanced care directive and/or living will), and statistics regarding poor health outcomes for those with marginalized identities and life experiences. Both factors will emphasize why it’s so important to have these documents prepared ahead of time.

This event will be presented by Ilyssa Silfen, Higher Education Assistant, Department of Social Work.

For more information, contact Jeremiah.Jurkiewicz@csi.cuny.edu or 718.982.3091.

Future Lectures:
October 24: Queer Zines in the Academy by Associate Professor Anne Adkison, Department of the Library
November 21: Women and Alcohol by Professor Christine Flynn Saulnier, Department of Social Work
December 12: Writing Queer Memory and Desire in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers by Professor of Cinema Studies David Gerstner, Department of Media Culture