A webpage dedicated to the medical and care aspects of end-of-life rights and conflicts.

Karen Baker-Fletcher is a professor of systematic theology at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology. She specializes in womanist theology and is the co-author of My Sister, My Brother: Womanist and Xodus God-Talk. Baker-Fletcher’s research interests also include ecology, and in 2007 the environmental magazine Grist named her as one of 15 top religious leaders on […]

A doctor’s approach to end-of-life issues through her personal eyes and those of her profession.

Debra Y. Fraser-Howze is president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS. Her professional career has been spent delivering social services to African-American communities.

Richard Cooper is a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly, specializing in food and drug law. Formerly, he was general counsel at the Food and Drug Administration.

Brenda Girton-Mitchell is director of the Department’s Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is also chaplain to the National Bar Association and is a deacon trustee at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. She can discuss the NCC’s work on social issues, including marriage, single-parenthood and families. Contact 202-544-2350.

Richard A. Merrill is Daniel Caplin Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and is editor and author of multiple books on food and drug law.

Alice M. Graham is professor of pastoral care and counseling at Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, N.C. She is an ordained minister in the American Baptist denomination. Among her interests is the subject of the psychological and emotional issues facing inmates released from prison. She teaches a seminar for inmates in a transitional program at North […]

Dr. Michael Grodin is professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at Boston University School of Public Health and a clinical medical ethicist for Boston Medical Center.