{"id":53409,"date":"2016-02-19T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/catholic_herald_most_euthanasia_deaths_linked_to_loneliness_says_dutch_stud\/"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T15:00:08","slug":"catholic_herald_most_euthanasia_deaths_linked_to_loneliness_says_dutch_stud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53409","title":{"rendered":"(Catholic Herald) Most euthanasia deaths linked to loneliness, says Dutch study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of people killed by euthanasia in the Netherlands for so-called psychiatric reasons had complained of loneliness, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the U.S. found that loneliness, or \u201csocial isolation\u201d\u009d, was a key motivation behind the euthanasia requests of 37 of 66 cases reviewed, a figure representing 56 per cent of the total.<\/p>\n<p>The study by the National Institute of Health also revealed that the Netherlands was operating a de facto policy of euthanasia on demand, with patients \u201cshopping\u201d\u009d for doctors willing to give them a lethal injection for the most trivial of reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2016\/02\/18\/most-euthanasia-deaths-linked-to-loneliness-says-dutch-study\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of people killed by euthanasia in the Netherlands for so-called psychiatric reasons had complained of loneliness, a new study has found. Researchers in the U.S. found that loneliness, or \u201csocial isolation\u201d\u009d, was a key motivation behind the euthanasia<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53409\">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":[48,39,40,50,103,438,168,200,104,114,96,184,151,129,455,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-the-netherlands","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409","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=53409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}