{"id":8685,"date":"2002-09-14T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/14\/suicide-tourism\/"},"modified":"2002-09-14T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2002-09-14T16:59:30","slug":"suicide-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/suicide-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Switzerland, alarmed by growing numbers of &#8220;suicide<br \/>\ntourists&#8221;, plans to make it harder for foreigners to kill themselves, officials<br \/>\nsaid yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Fifty-five foreigners were among the 110 people that<br \/>\nDignitas, the only Swiss voluntary euthanasia society that will assist<br \/>\noutsiders, has helped to die since it was founded four years ago. <\/font><\/p>\n<p>The Swiss probably don&#8217;t like the idea of this since people who commit<br \/>\nsuicide are notoriously bad tippers, they don&#8217;t do much shopping and only buy<br \/>\none way tickets.<\/p>\n<p>We need to pray for those who are suffering from depression and\/or pain and<br \/>\nthat the message of redemptive suffering is known to all. Also for those who out<br \/>\nof a false compassion assist these souls in suicide. The word compassion means<br \/>\nsuffer-with and you no longer suffer with someone when they have<br \/>\ndied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland, alarmed by growing numbers of &#8220;suicide tourists&#8221;, plans to make it harder for foreigners to kill themselves, officials said yesterday. Fifty-five foreigners were among the 110 people that Dignitas,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}