{"id":2568,"date":"2010-02-09T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2010-02-09T20:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:53:42","slug":"and_nary_a_ment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"And Nary A Mention Of Death Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pratchett, the British author who was previously diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer&#8217;s, is pushing for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8490062.stm\">legalization in the U.K. of assisted suicide<\/a> for those who are terminally ill. A BBC poll finds that the British public seems largely supportive of the idea, but becomes more ambivalent if it&#8217;s made available to those who aren&#8217;t terminally ill.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that the issue of assisted suicide has fallen off the radar in the last few years. I can&#8217;t remember any state legislature debates or ballot measures on the issue in recent memory. I can&#8217;t tell if that signifies a shift in attitude or if we&#8217;re simply distracted by our economic woes. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if most of Western Europe passes laws legalizing assisted suicide before the end of the decade, but a revival of the debate here in America doesn&#8217;t seem to be on the horizon. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pratchett, the British author who was previously diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer&#8217;s, is pushing for legalization in the U.K. of assisted suicide for those who are terminally ill. A BBC poll finds that the British public seems largely supportive of the idea, but becomes more ambivalent if it&#8217;s made available to those who aren&#8217;t terminally <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2568' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}