ACA Sunshine Coast Chapter - June 2024
About
June Agenda: Colin Dicks presents ‘Death, Dying and Donuts’, a book based on personal experienceDr Dicks completed his primary medical training and specialist training at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He then spent almost 5 years in New Zealand before relocating to South Africa and then moving to the Sunshine Coast, Australia in 2004.
As a Radiation Oncologist, Colin has had many conversations around death and dying. He was aware of the need to normalise conversations around death and dying and self-published “About Dying: How to live in the face of death” in 2004 to enable conversations around dying. In 2019 he completed his MSc (Palliative Medicine) researching “death education in a cohort of patients on the Sunshine Coast”, concluding that there was a need for a book like “Death for dummies”.
Based on his experience, Colin wrote “Death, Dying and Donuts” as a follow up book to address issues around dying.
Location
Seminar Room 4, Goodlife Community Centre
100 Buderim Pines Drive, Buderim QLD 4556