{"id":4940,"date":"2017-10-02T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2017-10-02T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:10:19","slug":"quebec-moves-slowly-toward-euthanasia-for-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/quebec-moves-slowly-toward-euthanasia-for-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec moves slowly toward euthanasia for dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euthanasia is insinuating into our collective thinking the notion that death \u2013 not good health care, quality support and adequate living conditions \u2013 is a solution to suffering for you and your loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>In the depth of the current debates, a dramatic message hides behind the possibility of extending euthanasia to people who are no longer able to make their own decisions. Presumably, these people would no longer be fully considered as human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it seems urgent to ask ourselves, as a society, how we consider people who have rendered incapable because of illness. Do we still grant them their full humanity?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercatornet.com\/careful\/view\/quebec-moves-slowly-toward-euthanasia-for-dementia\/20494?utm_source=MercatorNet&amp;utm_campaign=1fc0907e0b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e581d204e2-1fc0907e0b-124669871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article published in MercatorNet &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euthanasia is insinuating into our collective thinking the notion that death \u2013 not good health care, quality support and adequate living conditions \u2013 is a solution to suffering for you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}