{"id":977,"date":"2018-07-17T08:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T22:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=977"},"modified":"2022-09-04T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:43:24","slug":"lunchtime-meeting-august-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/lunchtime-meeting-august-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime meeting August 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The recent meeting, in the RCH Foundation, was attended by about 40 Alumni members and guests.<\/h4>\n

Dominic was introduced by Dr Kevin Collins, standing in for the President Dr Hugo Gold who was away. Dr Collins reminded the audience of Dominic’s well remembered performance in a Residents’ Show at RCH in early 2003, when he played “Virgil the Invaginator”, folding himself into an infant incubator.<\/p>\n

Dominic’s presentation to the Alumni started with him reading from a poem by Claudius to the music from Schubert’s emotive theme.<\/p>\n

His graphic talk included references to a number of infants and \u00a0their families facing imminent death in difficult circumstances. He discussed what constituted a “Good Death” as opposed to many situations where death was clearly bad \/ painful \/ prolonged, etc.<\/p>\n

Despite the rather morose subject matter he managed to make a difficult subject entertaining as well as thought provoking and finished with a lively violin solo playing a “Lament” from Scottish composer, Niel Gow.<\/p>\n

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A Podcast of this talk was recorded when it was delivered in June to an audience in Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

To hear this podcast click on “View in iTunes”. Then press on the Play icon to the left of “Sleep softly: Ethics, —-“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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