{"id":4033,"date":"2017-02-27T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:00:47","slug":"euthanasia-and-alzheimers-canada-takes-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/euthanasia-and-alzheimers-canada-takes-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia and Alzheimer\u2019s: Canada takes a step in the wrong direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The euthanasia machine has once again become activated, following the <a href=\"http:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-news\/slaying-of-nursing-home-patient-renews-questions-about-medical-assistance-in-dying\">\u201ccompassionate\u201d murder<\/a> of a woman with advanced stage Alzheimer\u2019s.\u00a0However, wanting to broaden the law to give advanced consent to suicide \u2013 through an advance directive \u2013 raises many ethical and moral questions.<\/p>\n<p>What is the status of people with dementia such as Alzheimer\u2019s? Are we talking about a subcategory of human beings that could be eliminated if their \u201cold self\u201d asked for it?\u00a0Are there categories of \u201cunworthy\u201d people?<\/p>\n<p>There is still time to change our perspective on people made vulnerable by sickness, old age, or disability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercatornet.com\/careful\/view\/euthanasia-and-alzheimers-canada-takes-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction\/19408#sthash.UfGbEpum.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article on MercatorNet &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The euthanasia machine has once again become activated, following the \u201ccompassionate\u201d murder of a woman with advanced stage Alzheimer\u2019s.\u00a0However, wanting to broaden the law to give advanced consent to suicide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}