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Final Day Workshops Our third and final workshop will be led by scholars Roger Chung and Rebecca Brendel. It will offer participants an opportunity to examine voluntary assisted dying (commonly known as voluntary euthanasia) and consider whether, and to what extent, echoes of the Nazi T4 program can be discerned in contemporary thought and practice, and what lessons may be drawn from these parallels. “Care in Context: End-of-Life Decisions and Public Policy in Global Perspective” Experts: Roger Chung, PhD, MBE, MHS, Chinese University of Hong Kong Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, Harvard Medical School As we are increasingly able to prolong life, physicians, patients, and caregivers around the world are grappling with clinical, ethical, and legal questions surrounding decision-making at the end of life. This workshop will highlight the example of evolving developments in Hong Kong, the US, and beyond as lenses to explore the continuum of considerations from decision-making about withdrawing and withholding care to the contours and context of medically-assisted death and euthanasia. Critical ethical considerations about when, if ever, physician participation in causing death ought to be permissible/ available will be explored in the context of concerns regarding human and social implications of various practices We encourage all