{"id":297,"date":"2011-06-03T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-06-03T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:05:40","slug":"should-the-law-on-assisted-dying-be-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/06\/03\/should-the-law-on-assisted-dying-be-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the law on assisted dying be changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>BMJ <\/em>shines a spotlight on the assisted dying debate, with a \u2018Head to Head\u2019 article authored by Raymond Tallis, former professor of geriatric medicine (University of Manchester) and Kevin Fitzpatrick, researcher for UK campaign Not Dead Yet (7 May, 2011). Tallis argues that allowing terminally ill people to choose an assisted death is part of good care, but\u00a0Fitzpatrick believes it will endanger the lives of disabled people.\u00a0Read the full<em> BMJ<\/em> articles using the links below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to BMJ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.d2355.full?sid=83dc1b31-359a-4b04-991c-9c371d3f8a9e\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Yes&#8217; by Raymond Tallis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to BMJ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.d1883.full?sid=83dc1b31-359a-4b04-991c-9c371d3f8a9e\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018No\u2019 by Kevin Fitzpatrick<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ shines a spotlight on the assisted dying debate, with a \u2018Head to Head\u2019 article authored by Raymond Tallis, former professor of geriatric medicine (University of Manchester) and Kevin Fitzpatrick, researcher for UK campaign Not Dead Yet (7 May, 2011). Tallis argues that allowing terminally ill people to choose an assisted death is part [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/06\/03\/should-the-law-on-assisted-dying-be-changed\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}