{"id":26668,"date":"2011-06-11T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/why_a_quiet_millionaires_suicide_will_be_shown_on_bbc_tv\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:05:31","slug":"why_a_quiet_millionaires_suicide_will_be_shown_on_bbc_tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26668","title":{"rendered":"Why a quiet millionaire&#39;s suicide will be shown on BBC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the BBC, which has been accused of becoming a \u201d\u02dc\u201d\u02dccheerleader\u2019\u2019 for assisted suicide, defended its decision to show Mr [Peter] Smedley\u2019s death in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Terry hopes it will persuade the Government to think again about the law and advocates a system in which doctors are able to prescribe take-home suicide kits to enable terminally-ill patients to choose the right moment to end their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Smedley said&#8230; last night that she did not want to discuss her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-and-radio\/why-a-quiet-millionaires-suicide-will-be-shown-on-tv-20110609-1fu0q.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the BBC, which has been accused of becoming a \u201d\u02dc\u201d\u02dccheerleader\u2019\u2019 for assisted suicide, defended its decision to show Mr [Peter] Smedley\u2019s death in the film. Sir Terry hopes it will persuade the Government to think again about the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26668\">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":[48,39,50,438,199,168,200,104,96,93,184,108,450,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26668","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-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-movies-television","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-switzerland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668","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=26668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}