{"id":11464,"date":"2012-05-29T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=11464"},"modified":"2012-05-29T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:20:23","slug":"depression-and-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/05\/29\/depression-and-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression and Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply troubled by the availability of euthanasia to people suffering from depression and mental illness. Recent research from Oregon, USA, where euthanasia is available has not stilled my troubled soul. See, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lozierinstitute.org\/2012\/05\/assisted-suicide-in-oregon-evidence-of-missed-evaluation-for-depression\/\">Assisted Suicide in Oregon: Evidence of Missed Evaluation for Depression. <\/a>Excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More important, the ongoing failure to refer patients seeking assisted suicide for psychiatric evaluation put these patients at risk when there are treatment options available for their depression. \u00a0As the <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?volume=284&amp;issue=19&amp;page=2460\">previously cited<em> JAMA<\/em> study<\/a> shows, terminally ill patients\u2019 attitudes towards assisted suicide \u201cappear to be quite unstable.\u201d\u00a0 Of those patients who during an initial interview said they would consider assisted suicide\/euthanasia for themselves, about half had changed their minds at a later, follow-up interview.\u00a0 By the same token, some terminally ill patients who had not considered assisted suicide\/euthanasia for themselves at the initial interview began to do so at the follow-up interview.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 \u201cDepressive symptoms and dyspnea were associated with this instability.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThus,\u201d the authors recommend, \u201cphysicians who receive requests for euthanasia or PAS should recognize their volatility and not take such requests as settled views but should evaluate patients for depression and unrelieved dyspnea.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply troubled by the availability of euthanasia to people suffering from depression and mental illness. Recent research from Oregon, USA, where euthanasia is available has not stilled my troubled soul. See, Assisted Suicide in Oregon: Evidence of Missed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/05\/29\/depression-and-euthanasia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11476,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions\/11476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}