{"id":4304,"date":"2017-04-18T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2017-04-18T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:21:26","slug":"killing-by-lethal-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/killing-by-lethal-injection\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing by lethal injection: a psychological torment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who said that medical aid in dying is not killing? When one uses the right words, logic and common sense do the rest:<\/p>\n<p>Medical aid in dying = lethal injection = euthanasia = killing = <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4712443\/arkansas-executions-midazolam-death-penalty\/\">psychological torment for executioners<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/national\/98take+name+list+more+some+doctors+backing+assisted\/12994191\/story.html\">psychological torment for doctors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Killing (medical aid in dying \/ euthanasia \/ assisted suicide) is not a health care.<\/p>\n<p>---------------------------------------------<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Unlike the \u201ckill or be killed\u201d mindset in war or other forms of self-defense, carrying out executions felt very much like participating in premeditated and rehearsed murder. Either from religious training (\u201cthou shall not kill\u201d) or established societal norms, every person knows that taking a human life is one of our culture\u2019s most serious offenses. It exacts severe mental trauma -<b data-reactid=\"258\">\u00a0<\/b>even when done under the auspices of state law\"\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4712443\/arkansas-executions-midazolam-death-penalty\/\">&gt;&gt;<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b data-reactid=\"258\">\u2014\u00a0<\/b><\/em>Dr. Ault, <span class=\"s1\">former commissioner of the Georgia, Mississippi and Colorado Departments of Corrections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who said that medical aid in dying is not killing? When one uses the right words, logic and common sense do the rest:<br \/>\nMedical aid in dying = lethal injection &#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-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","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=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}