{"id":50032,"date":"2015-05-29T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/st_annes_businessman_jeffrey_spector_dies_of_assisted_suicide_in_switzerlan\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T01:19:38","slug":"st_annes_businessman_jeffrey_spector_dies_of_assisted_suicide_in_switzerlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50032","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) St Annes businessman Jeffrey Spector dies of assisted suicide in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In England and Wales, the Suicide Act 1961 makes it an offence to encourage or assist a suicide or a suicide attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said he would attempt to reintroduce a bill that would allow assisted dying in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was &#8220;completely wrong&#8221; that terminally ill people did not have the option to end their life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever your take on the subject, it should be debated,&#8221; Lord Falconer told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-32881161?\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In England and Wales, the Suicide Act 1961 makes it an offence to encourage or assist a suicide or a suicide attempt. Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said he would attempt to reintroduce a bill that would allow assisted dying<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50032\">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":[48,39,50,175,101,438,199,178,168,200,104,114,96,98,184,177,129,108,450,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-switzerland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032","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=50032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}