{"id":4990,"date":"2017-08-31T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2019-01-10T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:53:23","slug":"teenagers-assisted-suicide-sends-horrible-message-that-being-disabled-is-a-fate-worse-than-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/teenagers-assisted-suicide-sends-horrible-message-that-being-disabled-is-a-fate-worse-than-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager\u2019s Assisted Suicide Sends Horrible Message That Being Disabled is \u201cA Fate Worse Than Death\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent death of 19-year-old Tommy Swales made headlines in the UK. He had been diagnosed with Friedrich\u2019s ataxia \u2013 a rare genetic disorder that causes heart disease and a gradual loss of mobility \u2013 four years ago. The sudden change in his abilities caused him to become withdrawn, depressed, and isolated.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2017\/08\/31\/teenagers-assisted-suicide-sends-horrible-message-that-being-disabled-is-a-fate-worse-than-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent death of 19-year-old Tommy Swales made headlines in the UK. He had been diagnosed with Friedrich\u2019s ataxia \u2013 a rare genetic disorder that causes heart disease and a &#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-4990","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\/4990","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=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9068,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}