WUU Service - "Lessons About Death with Dignity My Patients Taught Me!" (3/9/2025)

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Approaching the end of one’s life presents challenges for both those with deeply held faith beliefs and those who do not hold such beliefs. We all desire death with dignity, but just what does that mean? As a volunteer and advocate for the organization Compassion and Choice, Dan knows what he wants that to mean for everyone in their own way.

“In the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”
- - Abraham Lincoln

Dr. Daniel L. Cohen, MD (prefers “Dan”), is a member of the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church in Alexandria, Virginia and also a volunteer advocate with Compassion and Choice, an organization committed to advancing the principle of “medical assistance in dying” as a benevolent and empathic option for individuals who are living in the terminal phase of terminal illnesses and who wish to receive this care. Dan is a pediatrician, hematologist/oncologist and medical executive who also served for nearly 30 years in the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense where he was the Chief Medical Officer and Executive Medical Director for the Military’s TRICARE health plan providing care for over 9,000,000 service members, family members, retirees and spouses; soup to nuts! When Dan hosts services he likes to use illustrative stories that portray his personal witness to cultivate the themes and messages he wishes to convey and that align with Unitarian Universalist principles.

• Dr. Daniel Cohen & Suzanne Cleary Cohen, Guest Worship Leaders
• Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate
• Mike Walker, Introduction of Today’s Topic & Guests
• Heidi Souza, Piano
• WUU Choir, directed by Chris Mooney, Music Director
• Liz Wiley, Worship Chair

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