{"id":48862,"date":"2015-03-16T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/unsurprisingly_and_depressingly_the_ny_times_come_out_on_the_wrong_side_on_\/"},"modified":"2015-03-16T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T00:15:12","slug":"unsurprisingly_and_depressingly_the_ny_times_come_out_on_the_wrong_side_on_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48862","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprisingly and depressingly, the NY Times come out on the wrong side on assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the radio host Diane Rehm watched in agony as her husband, John, starved to death over the course of 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Severely crippled by Parkinson\u2019s disease, his only option for ending the suffering was to stop eating and drinking. Physicians in most states, including Maryland, where he lived, are barred from helping terminally ill patients who want to die in a dignified way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a brilliant man, just brilliant,\u201d\u009d Ms. Rehm said in an interview. \u201cFor him to go out that way, not being able to do anything for himself, was an insufferable indignity.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/offering-a-choice-to-the-terminally-ill.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the radio host Diane Rehm watched in agony as her husband, John, starved to death over the course of 10 days. Severely crippled by Parkinson\u2019s disease, his only option for ending the suffering was to stop eating and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48862\">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":[48,39,40,103,175,438,168,104,114,96,184,151,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48862","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=48862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}