{"id":243,"date":"2010-02-02T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:51:48","slug":"terry-pratchett-shakes-hands-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2010\/02\/02\/terry-pratchett-shakes-hands-with-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett Shakes Hands with Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably a bit <em>de trop<\/em>, because I suspect that many watched it as broadcast &#8211; but those who haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrypratchett.co.uk\/index.html\">Terry Pratchett<\/a>&#8216;s Dimbleby Lecture can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00qmfgn\/Richard_Dimbleby_Lecture_Shaking_Hands_with_Death\/\">watch it here<\/a>; I believe that most things on the iplayer get taken down after a while, but I can&#8217;t see any indication of there being a limited time for this, so am assuming that it&#8217;s going to be available indefinitely.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny, impassioned and well worth a watch.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep an eye out for the availability of a transcript &#8211; if anyone finds it, let me know, and I&#8217;ll provide a link here.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s worth a mention, too, that he <a href=\"http:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/33\/10\/591.full.pdf?sid=1136e610-f7c4-4820-b7d5-83a9cea772eb\">cites this 2007 <em>JME<\/em> paper<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Thanks to Dr Gubernaculum for directing me to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2010\/feb\/02\/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal\">shortened version of the lecture<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably a bit de trop, because I suspect that many watched it as broadcast &#8211; but those who haven&#8217;t seen Terry Pratchett&#8216;s Dimbleby Lecture can watch it here; I believe that most things on the iplayer get taken down after a while, but I can&#8217;t see any indication of there being a limited [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2010\/02\/02\/terry-pratchett-shakes-hands-with-death\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,443,591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-jme","category-life-and-death"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}