{"id":12584,"date":"2009-05-02T19:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/philadelphia_inquirer_debating_an_end_of_life_decision\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T19:02:26","slug":"philadelphia_inquirer_debating_an_end_of_life_decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12584","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Inquirer: Debating an end-of-life decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed the brain disease that had been making it harder for her to walk without falling, Rona Zelniker told her son and daughter that she was going to end her life while she still could, before complete disability set in.<\/p>\n<p>Her children were grateful for the way she prepared them, and for the time they had together at the end. &#8220;I must have cried 150 times in the last year,&#8221; said Keith Zelniker, 32, her son. He scheduled off the week she was planning to die, writing on his work calendar, &#8220;bereavement time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelniker felt anxiety about how she would end her life. She didn&#8217;t want to swallow pills, only to wake up even worse off, with brain damage. A gun was out of the question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/front_page\/20090501_Debating_an_end-of-life_decision.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed the brain disease that had been making it harder for her to walk without falling, Rona Zelniker told her son and daughter that she was going to end her life while she<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12584\">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":[48,39,438,168,104,96,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584","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=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}