{"id":70921,"date":"2018-05-07T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70921"},"modified":"2018-05-07T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:36:59","slug":"a-london-times-article-on-the-forthcoming-vote-in-guernseys-parliament-on-whether-to-legalise-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70921","title":{"rendered":"A [London] times article on the forthcoming vote in Guernsey\u2019s parliament on whether to legalise assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quirks such as the \u00a31 note are a reminder that life on the quaint British dependency of Guernsey is like it is on the mainland \u2014 but not in every way. The law governing how islanders die could soon make the difference starker.<\/p>\n<p>In 10 days\u2019 time, Guernsey will vote on whether to become the first place in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying, reigniting a national debate and raising fears of Swiss-style \u201cdeath clinics\u201d in the Channel.<\/p>\n<p>The bill needs the support of 21 local politicians to pass: a simple majority of the 40 who sit in the island\u2019s parliament. None belongs to any party or bloc, so the outcome is hard to predict.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have drafted the law say it is strictly designed for terminally ill residents \u2014 but opponents believe the island, used by global elites as a tax haven, could become a magnet for death tourism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/guernsey-to-decide-on-assisted-dying-x3wr95xq6\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quirks such as the \u00a31 note are a reminder that life on the quaint British dependency of Guernsey is like it is on the mainland \u2014 but not in every way. The law governing how islanders die could soon make<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70921\">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":[103,175,438,199,168,104,114,96,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70921","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=70921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70923,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70921\/revisions\/70923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}