{"id":1777,"date":"2014-12-11T20:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2014-12-11T20:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:48:58","slug":"israel-has-not-allowed-its-first-case-of-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/israel-has-not-allowed-its-first-case-of-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel has not allowed its first case of euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some media report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/53908-141209-for-first-time-in-israel-court-permits-euthanasia-for-terminal-patient\">Israel just allowed euthanasia for the first time<\/a>. It is not the case. The situation in question isn't a case of euthanasia, but one of withdrawal of treatment. There is a lot of confusion on this topic, and many people confuse euthanasia with withdrawal of treatment (<a href=\"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-09-24-vdd-sondage-en.pdf\">including 22% of people in Quebec<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In this recent Israeli case, the court allowed the disconnection of life support machines keeping a man alive. There is a significant difference between euthanasia, which is to intentionally cause death, and treatment withdrawal, which allows for a natural death.<\/p>\n<p>This Israeli patient wasn't intentionally killed \u2013 he died naturally from his condition.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that this judgment will lead to a debate on assisted suicide in the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). They have introduced an assisted suicide bill (not a bill to allow euthanasia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some media report that Israel just allowed euthanasia for the first time. It is not the case. The situation in question isn&#8217;t a case of euthanasia, but one of withdrawal &#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-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","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=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}