{"id":11995,"date":"2012-08-09T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T06:53:31","slug":"euthanasia-societys-cost-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/08\/09\/euthanasia-societys-cost-saver\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia: Society&#8217;s cost saver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below, a quote from Robert Lifton&#8217;s historical\/psychological book, &#8220;The Nazi Doctors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Under the Nazis, there was increasing discussion of the possibility of mercy killings, of the Hoche concept of the &#8216;mentally dead,&#8217; and of the enormous economic drain on German society caused by the large number of these impaired people. A mathematics text asked the student to calculate how many government loans to newly married couples could be granted for the amount of money it cost the state to care for &#8216;the crippled, the criminal, and the insane.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See quote from, <a href=\"http:\/\/holocaust-history.org\/lifton\/LiftonT048.shtml\">The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide; p.48<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/10\/08\/euthanasia-a-creeping-corrosion\/\">Euthanasia: a creeping corrosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below, a quote from Robert Lifton&#8217;s historical\/psychological book, &#8220;The Nazi Doctors.&#8221; &#8220;Under the Nazis, there was increasing discussion of the possibility of mercy killings, of the Hoche concept of the &#8216;mentally dead,&#8217; and of the enormous economic drain on German &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/08\/09\/euthanasia-societys-cost-saver\/\">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\/11995"}],"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=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12311,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions\/12311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}