{"id":1609,"date":"2014-07-02T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:37:52","slug":"andree-champagne-says-shes-worried-about-the-legalisation-of-medical-aid-in-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/andree-champagne-says-shes-worried-about-the-legalisation-of-medical-aid-in-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9e Champagne says she\u2019s worried about the legalisation of medical aid in dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/widgets\/mediaconsole\/medianet\/7108991#\">Andr\u00e9e Champagne says she\u2019s worried that \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d is now allowed in Quebec<\/a>. After nearly 9 years in the Canadian Senate, Mrs. Champagne is retiring. You may remember her from her role in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Belles_Histoires_des_pays_d%27en_haut\">Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut<\/a> which ran between 1956 and 1970. Mrs Champagne was also a Federal MP from 1986 to 1993.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In her final Senate speech, she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLast week, the National Assembly of Quebec, my province, passed a new law on end-of-life care. I shudder to think what could have happened to me\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, she came close to dying. She had meningitis which put her in a coma for over a month. Her physicians even suggested to stop treatment.<\/p>\n<p>She isn\u2019t the only one to be worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9e Champagne says she\u2019s worried that \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d is now allowed in Quebec. After nearly 9 years in the Canadian Senate, Mrs. Champagne is retiring. You may remember &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}