{"id":815,"date":"2009-08-27T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-08-26T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T00:31:58","slug":"pastoral-sensitivity-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/08\/27\/pastoral-sensitivity-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral sensitivity &amp; euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/main.php?pg=news&amp;news_id=11418\">End of life support<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018End of life decisions are common in intensive care units. Dr Christopher Wright explains how some of these decisions are made and the practical issues around reaching them. A most sensitive pastoral approach from an experienced practitioner.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/main.php?pg=news&amp;news_id=11417&amp;s=11354\">The cost of \u2018kindness\u2019<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Many people ask why we allow euthanasia for suffering pets, but not for people. Dr Denise Cooper Clarke explores the ethical side of this question.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr Philip Freier, Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/main.php?pg=news&amp;news_id=11982&amp;s=1472\">Statement regarding the Medical Treatment (Physician Assisted Dying) Bill 2008<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018The fear of being a burden is a major risk to the survival of those who are incurably ill; if euthanasia \u2013 understood as a deliberate medical intervention to hasten death &#8211; were to become legal then this sense of burden would greatly increase, for there would be a moral pressure to end one\u2019s life for the sake of others.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Legalising euthanasia in this way could also undermine the ideal and practice of providing ongoing love and support to the terminally or incurably ill, something which is at the core of our humanity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With thanks to the Melbourne Anglican for these very good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/main.php?pg=search&amp;s=0&amp;search_terms=euthanasia&amp;Search=++++++++++++++++search\">resources re euthanasia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of life support : \u2018End of life decisions are common in intensive care units. Dr Christopher Wright explains how some of these decisions are made and the practical issues around reaching them. A most sensitive pastoral approach from an &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/08\/27\/pastoral-sensitivity-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\/815"}],"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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}