{"id":47736,"date":"2015-01-05T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/daily_mail_church_of_england_to_legalise_suicide_in_historic_u-turn_on_fune\/"},"modified":"2015-01-05T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:00:13","slug":"daily_mail_church_of_england_to_legalise_suicide_in_historic_u-turn_on_fune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47736","title":{"rendered":"(Daily Mail) Church of England to &#39;legalise&#39; suicide in historic U-turn on funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is embroiled in a row over proposals to sweep away laws that forbid a full Christian funeral to people who have taken their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>Most clergy now regard suicide with far more sympathy than when \u201d\u02dcself murder\u2019 was still a crime, and the move will be seen as reflecting a growing acceptance as more Britons choose to end their lives in clinics such as Dignitas in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>But some critics within the Church say the reforms will \u201d\u02dclegalise\u2019 suicide, which should still be regarded a serious sin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2895832\/Church-England-legalise-suicide-historic-U-turn-funerals-regard-taking-life-sin.html#ixzz3Nv973rSG\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is embroiled in a row over proposals to sweep away laws that forbid a full Christian funeral to people who have taken their own lives. Most clergy now regard suicide with far more sympathy than when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47736\">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":[36,48,39,74,175,389,438,178,168,104,184,177,129,603,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-suicide","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736","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=47736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}