{"id":1798,"date":"2015-01-26T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:10:40","slug":"suicide-prevention-for-the-elderly-vs-legalized-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/suicide-prevention-for-the-elderly-vs-legalized-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide prevention for the elderly vs legalized euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suicide prevention week in Quebec is  happening from the 1st to the 7th of February 2015. This  is an important activity considering the high number of people affected,  directly or not, by suicide. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2015\/01\/25\/suicide-a-longueuil-la-detresse-chez-les-aines \">An article in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al this week  mentions the high suicide rate for the elderly in Quebec<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Nearly 150 older people kill  themselves annually. Why? They feel alone because of illness and they are  unhappy.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> The article adds that &quot;it is a problem  that isn't much discussed, but that claims victims amongst the most  vulnerable&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Living with Dignity has long said that the  elderly are particularly vulnerable in these circumstances. With the  legalisation of &quot;medical aid in dying&quot;, which actually is euthanasia,  the risk will be even higher for these people.\n<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of euthanasia will say that the  criteria in the Act respecting end-of-life care would not allow our elders to  be euthanized simply because they are alone and feel unhappy. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2770249\/Healthy-OAP-couple-die-assisted-suicide-Husband-wife-support-three-children.html\">a recent  case in Belgium shows us that the risk is real<\/a>. An elderly couple were afraid  of loneliness if one of them died before the other. They asked to be euthanized  together, and the request was approved. They weren't ill or at &quot;end of  life&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Our society must look critically look at  these realities. It isn't logical to wish to prevent suicide while, at the same  time, promoting euthanasia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suicide prevention week in Quebec is  happening from the 1st to the 7th of February 2015. This  is an important activity considering the high number of people affected, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}