{"id":52464,"date":"2015-12-01T23:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_fading_socialite_who_took_overdose_has_right_to_die_court_rule\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:05:42","slug":"london_times_fading_socialite_who_took_overdose_has_right_to_die_court_rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52464","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Fading socialite who took overdose has right to die, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A socialite obsessed with youth and beauty who feared getting old has been told she has the right to refuse the medical treatment which keeps her alive.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old mother, who was married four times and had numerous lovers, took an overdose of painkillers washed down with champagne, the Court of Protection was told.<\/p>\n<p>She survived, but the damage caused to her liver means she requires renal dialysis.<\/p>\n<p>A judge ruled today that the woman has the mental capacity to refuse dialysis, despite the near certainty that the withdrawal of treatment will lead to her death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/law\/article4628944.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A socialite obsessed with youth and beauty who feared getting old has been told she has the right to refuse the medical treatment which keeps her alive. The 50-year-old mother, who was married four times and had numerous lovers, took<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52464\">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":[48,39,40,50,175,438,199,168,104,133,114,96,136,184,177,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52464","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-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-middle-age","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464","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=52464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}