{"id":5673,"date":"2015-09-10T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2015-09-10T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:31:22","slug":"helping-a-suicide-when-the-end-isnt-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/helping-a-suicide-when-the-end-isnt-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping a Suicide When the End Isn\u2019t Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2015\/09\/10\/helping-a-suicide-when-the-end-isnt-near\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a> -\u00a0Ira Byock, professor of medicine and community and family medicine emeritus, participates in <em>The New York Times'<\/em> opinion section \"Room for Debate,\" discussing how some nations are permitting people with serious, nonfatal health problems\u2014even severe depression\u2014to commit suicide with help from a physician. \"Suicide, assisted suicide and physician-assisted suicide are distinct acts. Suicide has existed from antiquity, and has always been discouraged,\" says Byock. \"Rational suicide represents the ultimate, unilateral exit from society; therefore, its illegality strikes me as meaningless. But, except in self-defense, intentionally ending another person's life remains wrong, on principle.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2015\/09\/10\/helping-a-suicide-when-the-end-isnt-near\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Ira Byock, professor of medicine and community and family medicine emeritus, participates in The New York Times&#8217; opinion section &#8220;Room for Debate,&#8221; discussing how some nations are permitting people with serious, nonfatal health problems\u2014even severe depression\u2014to commit suicide with help from a physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1tv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}