{"id":19639,"date":"2010-05-08T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sweden_has_first_passive_euthanasia_since_law_relaxed\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:58:32","slug":"sweden_has_first_passive_euthanasia_since_law_relaxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19639","title":{"rendered":"Sweden has first passive euthanasia since law relaxed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish woman who was paralysed died Wednesday after her respirator was unplugged, in the country&#8217;s first case of euthanasia since the law was relaxed last month, a Stockholm hospital said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The patient who asked the National Health Board to die, died at 5:33 pm (1533 GMT) after her respirator was unplugged,&#8221; Annakarin Svenningsson, a spokeswoman for Stockholm&#8217;s Danderyd hospital told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden&#8217;s health authority last month authorised passive euthanasia, whereby patients may request the termination of their treatment knowing that this will lead to their death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/world\/article435162.ece\/Sweden-has-first-passive-euthanasia-since-law-relaxed\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish woman who was paralysed died Wednesday after her respirator was unplugged, in the country&#8217;s first case of euthanasia since the law was relaxed last month, a Stockholm hospital said. &#8220;The patient who asked the National Health Board to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19639\">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":[48,39,50,438,168,200,104,114,96,184,452,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-sweden","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639","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=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}