{"id":84,"date":"2009-03-09T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-03-14T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T14:40:29","slug":"terry-pratchett-on-assisted-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/03\/09\/terry-pratchett-on-assisted-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett on Assisted Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of Discworld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/letters\/article5870145.ece\">writes to <em>The Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There may have to be [&#8230;] legal requirements that should be satisfied, but they should not be such that they become a barrier to the patient&#8217;s wishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of Discworld writes to The Times: There may have to be [&#8230;] legal requirements that should be satisfied, but they should not be such that they become a barrier to the patient&#8217;s wishes. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/03\/09\/terry-pratchett-on-assisted-dying\/\">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":[511,591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-life-and-death"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}