{"id":9021,"date":"2011-09-30T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2011-09-29T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T23:33:50","slug":"distinguishing-euthanasia-palliative-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/09\/30\/distinguishing-euthanasia-palliative-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguishing euthanasia &amp; palliative care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent letter that I received from Alex Anderson, Assistant Secretary to the Legal Policy Branch for the Prime Minister, there was a thought provoking sentence that summarized the difference between euthanasia and palliative care succinctly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Euthanasia is the act of ending a life, whereas palliative care is end of life care for a person who is dying.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is comforting to know that leaders of our nation are concerned with the importance of palliative care. Let us pray that God continues to lead them in these decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the letter <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2011\/08\/Department-of-the-Prime-Minister-and-Cabinet1.pdf\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent letter that I received from Alex Anderson, Assistant Secretary to the Legal Policy Branch for the Prime Minister, there was a thought provoking sentence that summarized the difference between euthanasia and palliative care succinctly: &#8220;Euthanasia is the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/09\/30\/distinguishing-euthanasia-palliative-care\/\">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\/9021"}],"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=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9029,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions\/9029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}