{"id":6282,"date":"2008-05-22T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_the_card_that_lets_you_choose_death\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:49:01","slug":"bbc_the_card_that_lets_you_choose_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6282","title":{"rendered":"BBC: The card that lets you choose death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial new &#8220;right to die&#8221; card is being offered to the public that allows anyone to refuse treatment in a medical emergency. Who carries it, and why?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a morbid question, but one that many of us have pondered at least once.<\/p>\n<p>If I hadn&#8217;t just escaped that dreadful accident, where would I be now? Would I rather be dead than depend on others to keep me alive?<\/p>\n<p>A new card seeks to address that very question. Available in pubs, banks, libraries, GP surgeries, even some churches, the Advanced Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT) card sits snugly in a wallet or purse and instructs a doctor to withhold treatment should the carrier lose the capacity to make decisions, because of an accident or illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/7399073.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial new &#8220;right to die&#8221; card is being offered to the public that allows anyone to refuse treatment in a medical emergency. Who carries it, and why? It&#8217;s a morbid question, but one that many of us have pondered<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6282\">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":[48,39,50,438,199,104,96,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282","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=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}