A bit of news: Tim Kirk was (I believe) recently appointed to the National Ethics Committee of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. You can find their website at : http://www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm
Oh, another quick note: Several Villanova folks will be down in Fredericksburg, Va in early April for the North American Sartre Society meeting. I count: myself and the members of my panel (Dera Sipe and Rebecca Goldner of the VU graduate program), Farhang, and Jess Elkayam (sp?) who is also in the graduate program. Where else are VU people showing up? (Why wasn't the Hermeneutics Society meeting advertised here too?)