# Death & Society

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Professor Mark Taubert, Sir Peter Thornton KC, Dr Sophie Oosterwijk FSA, Professor Mieko Kanno
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Law, History, Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/death-society)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In this lecture, Mark Taubert, who chairs the national DNACPR policy for Wales, and is a palliative care clinician, reviews current practices. He will encourage you to consider your own end of life care advance care plan, and attempt to write down your prior wishes. He reviews recent concerns, scandals and media outputs and looks at current resuscitation policies, guidelines and resources. He also discusses, from a clinician’s point of view, how the prospect of a natural, anticipated and accepted death in the near future can be a trigger to better advance care planning.

## Lectures

1. [Do Not Resuscitate Forms - Who’d Have One?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-death-society/f1fdb9d44156) (Audio)
2. [The Later Years: Organisation, Independence and Peace of Mind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-death-society/8ea53c11202e) (Audio)
3. [Life, Death and Judgement in the Art and Times of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-death-society/ba8548c97363) (Audio)
4. [Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-death-society/af807d88e3f0) (Audio)
5. [Music, Death and Afterlife](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-death-society/f6f62d90f54e) (Audio)