{"id":29396,"date":"2011-11-18T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_church_hall_in_scotland_hosts_doctors_diy_suicide_workshop\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:16:49","slug":"london_times_church_hall_in_scotland_hosts_doctors_diy_suicide_workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29396","title":{"rendered":"(London Times) Church Hall in Scotland hosts doctor\u2019s \u201d\u02dcDIY suicide\u2019 workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Edinburgh church hall is to stage a \u201cpractical euthanasia workshop\u201d\u009d hosted by the Australian physician who first helped a terminally ill patient to die legally by lethal injection.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Nitschke, director of Exit International, will use his visit to publicise \u201cnewly developed, reliable, DIY end-of-life strategies that do not require travel to Switzerland\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>His event in Edinburgh has already attracted the condemnation of faith groups. The Rev Ian Galloway, convenor of the Church of Scotland\u2019s church and society council, accused Exit of \u201cdemeaning our common humanity\u201d\u009d by reducing the conversation about life and death to a workshop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/article3218163.ece\">Read it all (requires subscription)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Edinburgh church hall is to stage a \u201cpractical euthanasia workshop\u201d\u009d hosted by the Australian physician who first helped a terminally ill patient to die legally by lethal injection. Philip Nitschke, director of Exit International, will use his visit to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29396\">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":[48,39,50,438,199,168,104,114,96,184,177,108,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29396","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-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396","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=29396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}