{"id":4852,"date":"2017-08-24T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2019-01-11T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:53:07","slug":"teenager-19-killed-himself-after-fearing-he-would-end-up-in-a-wheelchair-after-rare-incurable-illness-attacked-his-nervous-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/teenager-19-killed-himself-after-fearing-he-would-end-up-in-a-wheelchair-after-rare-incurable-illness-attacked-his-nervous-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager, 19, killed himself after fearing he would end up in a wheelchair after rare incurable illness attacked his nervous system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Swales, 19, had begun to walk with a stoop after contracting Friedreich\u2019s ataxia. However, as his conditioned worsened Thomas - known as Tommy - began getting depressed and his family believe he looked into the possibility of taking his own life at the Swiss assisted suicide clinic Dignitas.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/civicrm\/civicrm\/extern\/url.php?u=3217&amp;qid=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Swales, 19, had begun to walk with a stoop after contracting Friedreich\u2019s ataxia. However, as his conditioned worsened Thomas &#8211; known as Tommy &#8211; began getting depressed and his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[613],"tags":[866],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relevant-articles","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","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=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}