{"id":11557,"date":"2009-03-03T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_do_not_resuscitate_vs_allow_natural_death\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T18:23:16","slug":"usa_today_do_not_resuscitate_vs_allow_natural_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11557","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: &#39;Do not resuscitate&#39; vs. &#39;allow natural death&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could three words change the way severely ill patients and their loved ones think about death?<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual leaders and some medical staff at hospitals across the USA believe so, and they are reconsidering how they pose one of life&#8217;s toughest questions:<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to sign a &#8220;Do Not Resuscitate&#8221; form?<\/p>\n<p>When they ask, family members often balk. They believe they are giving up, condemning a loved one to death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-03-02-DNR-natural-death_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could three words change the way severely ill patients and their loved ones think about death? Spiritual leaders and some medical staff at hospitals across the USA believe so, and they are reconsidering how they pose one of life&#8217;s toughest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11557\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,438,104,96,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}