{"id":50610,"date":"2015-07-03T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/belgian_doctors_rule_depressed_24-year-old_woman_has_right_to_end_her_life\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T02:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T02:00:36","slug":"belgian_doctors_rule_depressed_24-year-old_woman_has_right_to_end_her_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50610","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Belgian doctors rule depressed 24-year-old woman has right to end her life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in Belgium have granted a medically depressed woman the right to end her own life.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old woman, named only as \u201d\u02dcLaura\u2019, told doctors she had suffered from depression since she was a child and wished to end her life, local newspaper De Morgen reported.<\/p>\n<p>Laura, who entered a psychiatric facility when she was 21, told the publication: \u201clife, that\u2019s not for me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Death feels to me not as a choice. If I had a choice, I would choose a bearable life, but I have done everything and that was unsuccessful,&#8221; she told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/right-to-die-belgian-doctors-rule-depressed-24yearold-woman-has-right-to-end-her-life-10361492.html>Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in Belgium have granted a medically depressed woman the right to end her own life. The 24-year-old woman, named only as \u201d\u02dcLaura\u2019, told doctors she had suffered from depression since she was a child and wished to end her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50610\">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":[48,39,40,50,175,463,438,168,200,104,114,96,184,177,151,129,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-belgium","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50610","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=50610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}