Franco rest

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Franco Rest (born August 20, 1942 in Ferrara ) is a German death benefit and ethics researcher .

Life

The rest of them studied educational science, Catholic theology , philosophy , art history and archeology in Münster, Würzburg and Freiburg / Breisgau. First he became a primary school teacher, then a high school teacher and finally a teacher in vocational training. Since 1972 he has been Professor of Education, Social Philosophy and Social Ethics at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund , in the Department of Applied Social Sciences. In 1980 he received his doctorate as Dr. ped. at the University of Münster. Remainder was dean of the social work department at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences from 1998 to 2002; and from 2002 to 2005 Vice Rector for Studies, Teaching, Study Reform, Evaluation and Further Education at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences. From 2003 to 2010 he was scientific director of the Dietrich Oppenberg Academy for hospice education and culture .

Since 1973 he has been conducting research on terminal care , hospice work , anti- euthanasia , network formation and thanatology with the support of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Volkswagenwerk Foundation and the North Rhine-Westphalia Welfare Foundation. Further areas of research are alternative schools ( Waldorf education ), peace education , upheavals (about-turns) in human life and the ethics of care.

From 1978 to 2000 the rest was a board member of the "More humanity in hospital and practice" of the North Rhine Medical Association , Düsseldorf. In 1985 he was co-founder and since 1987 scientific advisory board of "OMEGA - Living with dying". From 1988 to 1999 Rest worked as an advisor to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia for the development and expansion of outpatient and inpatient hospice services . From 1994 to 1998 he was a board member of the State Working Group on Hospices and Hospice Initiatives ("Hospizarbeitsgemeinschaft" HAG eV) in North Rhine-Westphalia; and 1989–2005 at the Advisory Board for the Institute for Social Gerontology in Dortmund. He has been chairman of “DELTA - Living and Dying in Accompaniment” since 1992 and has been a member of the ethics working group of the German Alzheimer's Society , Berlin, since 2000 .

Rest is the author of over 300 publications and in 2006 received the State Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the research award of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences for " hospice research" for his services to the hospice movement in Germany .

Publications

Publications in book form

  • Practical orthothanasia in the field of social practice Part 1: Development of behavioral characteristics for dealing with the dying on the basis of participatory field research in facilities for the elderly. Westdeutscher Verlag: Opladen 1977
  • Help the dying. A guide for the living. Quelle & Meyer Publisher: Heidelberg-Wiesbaden 1981
  • Death assistance - death care - death care. Study book for nursing, geriatric care, etc. a. Kohlhammer-Verlag: Stuttgart 1989
  • Controlled killing. Ethics of life against euthanasia and eugenics. Gerd Mohn Published by Gütersloh 1992
  • Live and die with company. Four hospices in North Rhine-Westphalia. Concepts and Practice. Expert opinion following scientific monitoring. LIT-Verlag: Münster / Hamburg 1995
  • Dying care instead of euthanasia. So that life remains worth living even after death. Herder-Verlag: Freiburg / Br. 1997
  • Living wills - entry into euthanasia through the back door? Pad-Verlag: Witten Dortmund 2004
  • U-turn in human life - Damascus experiences, past and present. Herder Published by Freiburg / Br. 1990
  • Waldorf Education. Anthroposophic education as a challenge to public and Christian education. Matthias Grünewald Published by Mainz / Quell-Verlag: Stuttgart 1992
  • (together with Walter Rest) Who are you, Christians? Exchange of letters over two millennia with DIOGNET. At the same time a new development of the creed series: Philosophy Volume 38 LIT-Verlag: Münster - Hamburg - London 2000
  • Endliches Erleben , Hospiz Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2011
  • Zest for life and fear of life: stories from a life with dying and death Hospiz-Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012
  • God's plan for people. Historical novel about the Leipzig Religious Discussion (1913) between Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock. , LIT-Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2013
  • (together with Gisela Rest-Hartjes) Heavy hour poetry. Poems and poetics in the face of death and other crises. Steinmann-Vlg., Rosengarten 2015
  • (together with Gisela Rest-Hartjes) You meet angels everywhere. Stories and poems for another Christmas. Karin-Fischer-Vlg .: Aachen 2016
  • Social work with a view to human rights. Dortmund writings on social work. Klartext-Verlag: Essen 2001
  • Unarmed between the fronts. Peace education on the way to realization. Styria Vlg .: Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1971
  • (Ed.), With Hartmut Reiners and Eberhard Klaschik , Life to the Last - Final Care of Tumor Patients . , Walter de Gruyter Published by Berlin - New York 2001
  • (Ed.), With Detlef B. Linke, Armin Nassehi , Georg Weber Studies on interdisciplinary thanatology. , LIT-Verlag: Münster (since 1992)
  • (Ed.), Forum “Hospiz”. LIT-Verlag: Münster (since 1999)

Articles in collective works

  • Hospice work worldwide , in: Werner Burgheim (Ed.), Qualified accompaniment of the dying and the mourning. Medical, legal, psycho-social and spiritual assistance . (= Forum GesundheitsMedien), Forum Merching 2001 to 2013, (loose-leaf collection in three volumes), ISBN 3-89827-374-1 , delivery December 2003, section 6.6., Pp. 1–3.
    • Aspects of the development of modern forms of hospice in retrospect and outlook , in: ibid., Section 6.6.1., Pp. 1–6.
    • On the international structure of the hospice movement , in: ibid., Section 6.6.2., Pp. 1–10.
    • Around the world - examples worldwide , in: ibid., Section 6.6.3., Pp. 1–9.
    • Some additional special features , in: ibid., Section 6.6.4., Pp. 1–2.
    • An attempt at a summary and an outlook , in: ibid., Section 6.6.5., Pp. 1–3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franco Prof. Dr. Rest in the database of NRW-literatur-im-netz.de . Retrieved October 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rest, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist, ethics researcher and co-founder of the hospice movement
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara , Italy