{"id":27263,"date":"2011-07-14T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/society_has_forgotten_art_of_dying_says_church_of_england_bishop\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:01:46","slug":"society_has_forgotten_art_of_dying_says_church_of_england_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27263","title":{"rendered":"Society has forgotten &#39;art of dying&#39;, says Church of England Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Rev Brian Castle, Bishop of Tonbridge, said many people are no longer willing to submit to the \u201cmystery\u201d\u009d of death and instead try to control it through assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>He said this actually rids them of the opportunity to choose to die when they are \u201ccompletely ready\u201d\u009d with the support of religion or loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop called on the church to \u201cspeak more naturally about death and dying\u201d\u009d, by including the topic in sermons and encouraging congregations to write their own funeral services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/8635336\/Society-has-forgotten-art-of-dying-says-bishop.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Rev Brian Castle, Bishop of Tonbridge, said many people are no longer willing to submit to the \u201cmystery\u201d\u009d of death and instead try to control it through assisted suicide. He said this actually rids them of the opportunity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27263\">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":[36,48,39,74,389,635,438,168,104,96,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","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\/27263","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=27263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}